256 pages
English language
Published Nov. 19, 1990 by Vintage Books.
256 pages
English language
Published Nov. 19, 1990 by Vintage Books.
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.