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The Defense
Nabokov VladimirVladimir 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. Čítať ďalej ↓
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'.
Vydavateľ
Penguin Books
Počet strán
192
Rok vydania
2025
Jazyk
Angličtina
Väzba
Mäkká väzba / Paperback
EAN
9780241720486
Adresa titulu
https://www.artforum.sk/katalog/1013683/the-defense
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'.
