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The Luzhin Defense

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Author Vladimir Nabokov
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Knopf | Vintage
On sale Aug 11, 1990 | 272 Pages | 9780679727224
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Nabokov's third novel, The Defense, is the story of Luzhin, a young outcast boy who takes up chess as a refuge from the anxiety of his everyday life. Luzhin's imminent rise to the rank of grandmaster creates havoc in his real one as the solace of his prodigious talent and the game he manipulates supplants the world of reality. Both his facades collapse during a crucial championship match, when the intricate defense he has devised withers under his opponent's unexpected and unpredictable lines of assault.
Vladimir Nabokov studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, writing prolifically in Russian under the pseudonym Sirin. In 1940, he left France for America, where he wrote some of his greatest works—Bend Sinister (1947), Lolita (1955), Pnin (1957), and Pale Fire (1962)—and translated his earlier Russian novels into English. He taught at Wellesley, Harvard, and Cornell. He died in Montreux, Switzerland, in 1977. View titles by Vladimir Nabokov

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Nabokov's third novel, The Defense, is the story of Luzhin, a young outcast boy who takes up chess as a refuge from the anxiety of his everyday life. Luzhin's imminent rise to the rank of grandmaster creates havoc in his real one as the solace of his prodigious talent and the game he manipulates supplants the world of reality. Both his facades collapse during a crucial championship match, when the intricate defense he has devised withers under his opponent's unexpected and unpredictable lines of assault.

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Vladimir Nabokov studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, writing prolifically in Russian under the pseudonym Sirin. In 1940, he left France for America, where he wrote some of his greatest works—Bend Sinister (1947), Lolita (1955), Pnin (1957), and Pale Fire (1962)—and translated his earlier Russian novels into English. He taught at Wellesley, Harvard, and Cornell. He died in Montreux, Switzerland, in 1977. View titles by Vladimir Nabokov

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