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The Luzhin Defense
A Lyrical Passion for Chess
by Vladimir Nabokov

The Luzhin Defense

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Publisher: Penguin Books, 1964
Edition: Paperback medium
ISBN: 978-0-14-118598-9
Pages: 266
Language: English

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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'.
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