The defense / a novel by Vladimir Nabokov ; translated by Michael Scammell in collaboration with the author.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977.

Contributor:

Scammell, Michael.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Vintage International (Series)

Vintage international

Standardized Title:

Zashchita Luzhina. English

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Chess--Fiction.

Chess.

Genre:

Fiction.

Novels.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

256 ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First Vintage International Edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., [1990]

Language Note:

Translation of: Zashchita Luzhina.

Summary:

As a young boy, Luzhin was unattractive, distracted, withdrawn, sullen--an enigma to his parents and an object of ridicule to his classmates.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.

Notes:

"First Vintage International Edition, August 1990."

"Originally published by G.P. Putnam's Sons in 1964."

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2 has label "Now a Major Motion Picture. The Luzhin Defence ..." pasted on cover.

Other Format:

Online version: Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977. Zashchita Luzhina. English. Defense.

ISBN:

0679727221

9780679727224

OCLC:

21231988

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