The Defense

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 Defense is the book that, of his early works, Nabokov felt ''contains and diffuses the greatest warmth''.>

Product details

• Authors: Vladimir Nabokov
• Assisted by: Michael Scammell (Translation), Scammell Michael (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.01.2025
• EAN: 9780241720486
• ISBN: 978-0-241-72048-6
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Classics, FICTION / Literary, Fiction in translation, Narrative theme: Interior life, Board games: Chess, FICTION / World Literature / Russia / 20th Century, Narrative theme: Health and illness