The defense

by Vladimir Nabokov

256 pages

English language

Published Jan. 4, 1990 by Vintage Books.

(1 review)

Originally published in Russian in 1930. Nabokov released an English translation in 1964. The novel is a fictionalized account of chess master, Curt von Bardeleben. The book was made into the movie, The Luzhin Defense in 2000.

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4 stars

Writing that keeps backing around something we can't quite see and falling down smoothly into incoherence with our obsessed characters.