The Luzhin Defense

Vladimir Nabokov, Michael Scammell, Michael Scammell

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Penguin
13 June 2001

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Fiction in translation

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

Nabokov's early novel about a chess-playing genius, reissuing in Modern Classics as part of the Nabokov relaunch

Vladimir Nabokov's early novel is the dazzling story of the coarse, strange yet oddly endearing chess-playing genius Luzhin. Discovering his prodigious gift in boyhood and 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'.

By: Vladimir Nabokov
Translated by: Michael Scammell, Michael Scammell
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 145g
ISBN: 9780141185989
ISBN 10: 0141185988
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 13 June 2001
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Vladimir Nabokov was born in 1899 in St Petersburg. He wrote his first literary works in Russian, but rose to international prominence as a masterly prose stylist for the novels he composed in English, most famously, Lolita. Between 1923 and 1940 he published novels, short stories, plays, poems and translations in the Russian language and established himself as one of the most outstanding Russian emigre writers. He died in 1977.