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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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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
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The defense: a novel
1990, Vintage Books
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0679727221 9780679727224
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The Defence (Twentieth Century Classics)
October 1986, Oxford University Press
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0192820281 9780192820280
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