The Luzhin Defense

Nabokov said of his chess-playing genius Luzhin that, despite his coarseness and grubby plainness, he is a lovable creation. Discovering his prodigious gift in boyhood, rising to the rank of international Grandmaster, Luzhin develops a lyrical passion for chess that renders the real world a phantom. As he confronts the fiery, swift-swooping Italian Grandmaster, Turati, he brings into play his carefully devised defence. Making masterly play of metaphor and imagery, The Luzhin Defense is the book that, of his early works, Nabokov felt 'contains and diffuses the greatest "warmth"'.
'Nabokov twins technical brilliance with an undismissable appeal to the emotions' Daily Telegraph

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Nabokov said of his chess-playing genius Luzhin that, despite his coarseness and grubby plainness, he is a lovable creation. Discovering his prodigious gift in boyhood, rising to the rank of international Grandmaster, Luzhin develops a lyrical passion for chess that renders the real world a phantom. As he confronts the fiery, swift-swooping Italian Grandmaster, Turati, he brings into play his carefully devised defence. Making masterly play of metaphor and imagery, The Luzhin Defense is the book that, of his early works, Nabokov felt 'contains and diffuses the greatest "warmth"'.
'Nabokov twins technical brilliance with an undismissable appeal to the emotions' Daily Telegraph

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EAN	9780141185989
Gewicht	220 g
Hersteller	Penguin
Breite	13 cm
Höhe	19,8 cm
Medium	Buch
Erscheinungsjahr	2000
Autor	Vladimir Nabokov
Sprache	Englisch
ISBN-10	0141185988
ISBN-13	9780141185989
Jahr der Erstauflage	1964
Seiten	266
Einband	kartoniert

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