The Defense

Description:

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.

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,  Universidad Sergio Arboleda,  Chess players,  Alienation (Social psychology)

Times: chess novel,  Russin novel