Defense - Vladimir Nabokov
The Defense is the third novel written by Vladimir Nabokov. The book tells a tale of Luzhin, who becomes a grandmaster in chess. Read about the obsession and madness.
The Defense
To review a Nabokov book is to take on the master at his own game, to attempt--and this is true of all book reviews, however strident the claim to objectivity--to express the essence of a literary work in many fewer words than the original work, to become in some ways a substitute for the original work, at best a pointer to the work.
To review a Nabokov book is to take on the master at his own game, to attempt--and this is true of all book reviews, however strident the claim to objectivity--to express the essence of a literary work in many fewer words than the original work, to become in some ways a substitute for the original work, at best a pointer to the work.