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Excerpt
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.
Literary origin
Country whose literature this title belongs to, based on author tradition —not necessarily where the story is set.
Russia
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Subjects
- Fiction, romance, general
- Russian fiction
- Translations into English
- English fiction
- Translations from Russian
- Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
- Chess
- Fiction
- Humor
- Lyrik
Times & places
- chess novel
- Russin novel