The defense : a novel /
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977.
The defense : a novel / by Vladimir Nabokov ; translated by Michael Scammell in collaboration with the author. - 1st Vintage International ed. - New York : Vintage Books, 1990. - 256 ; 21 cm. - Vintage international .
"Originally published by G.P. Putnam's Sons in 1964." "This work appeared originally in The New yorker." Translation of: Zashchita Luzhina.
As a young boy, Luzhin was unattractive, distracted, withdrawn, sullen--an enigma to his parents and an object of ridicule to his classmates. He takes up chess as a refuge from the anxiety of his everyday life. His talent is prodigious and he rises to the rank of grandmaster--but at a cost: in Luzhin' s obsessive mind, the game of chess gradually supplants the world of reality. His own world falls apart during a crucial championship match, when the intricate defense he has devised withers under his opponent's unexpected and unpredictabke lines of assault.
0679727221 : $8.95 9780679727224
89040546
Chess--Fiction.
The defense : a novel / by Vladimir Nabokov ; translated by Michael Scammell in collaboration with the author. - 1st Vintage International ed. - New York : Vintage Books, 1990. - 256 ; 21 cm. - Vintage international .
"Originally published by G.P. Putnam's Sons in 1964." "This work appeared originally in The New yorker." Translation of: Zashchita Luzhina.
As a young boy, Luzhin was unattractive, distracted, withdrawn, sullen--an enigma to his parents and an object of ridicule to his classmates. He takes up chess as a refuge from the anxiety of his everyday life. His talent is prodigious and he rises to the rank of grandmaster--but at a cost: in Luzhin' s obsessive mind, the game of chess gradually supplants the world of reality. His own world falls apart during a crucial championship match, when the intricate defense he has devised withers under his opponent's unexpected and unpredictabke lines of assault.
0679727221 : $8.95 9780679727224
89040546
Chess--Fiction.