Name: La Defensa (in Spanish)
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Author: Vladimir Nabokov

Type

Physical Book

Author

Vladimir Nabokov

Publisher

Anagrama

Year

1990

Language

Spanish

Pages

256

Format

Paperback

ISBN

8433911236

ISBN13

9788433911230

Edited in

España

Synopsis "La Defensa (in Spanish)"

El descubrimiento del ajedrez supone para el gran maestro Luzhin, protagonista de esta novela, la revelación de un orden de impecable armonía donde encontrar refugio contra las tribulaciones de su desdichada adolescencia. A partir de ese momento da comienzo su brillante carrera como campeón en ese juego, que pronto se convierte en una obsesión que absorbe su vida por completo. Luzhin comprende, demasiado tarde, que tal obsesión amenaza con destruirlo y que el instrumento escogido como defensa contra el desorden y los agravios del mundo es también un arma que finalmente se vuelve contra él mismo, hallándolo en la más patética indefensión. Todos los elementos de la trama se hallan sutilmente enlazados en un juego de correspondencias y de calculados golpes de efecto supeditados con inimitable sabiduría a una estructura que, deliberadamente, recuerda aquí a una elegante, astuta e implacable partida de ajedrez.

Vladimir Nabokov

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Vladimir Nabokov was born in Saint Petersburg into an aristocratic family in 1899, but his family background first, and later his personal interests, took him to Germany, England, France, and the United States, where he began a brilliant career as a poet, novelist, critic, and translator, while teaching Literature at several prestigious universities. His novels Mary (1926), King, Queen, Knave (1928), The Defense (1930), Glory (1932), Laughter in the Dark (1933), Despair and The Gift (both from 1934), Invitation to a Beheading (1938), The Eye (1937), The Enchanter (1939), The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (1941) and Ultima Thule (1942) preceded the monumental success of Lolita (1955) which allowed him to leave teaching and fully dedicate himself to his writing vocation. Later came Pnin (1957), Pale Fire (1962), Ada or Ardor (1969), Transparent Things (1972), Look at the Harlequins! (1974). Among his non-fiction works, his autobiography Speak, Memory (1951) and literary essays such as Nikolai Gogol (1944) or his courses on European literature, on Don Quixote or on Russian literature stand out. In 1961, he moved to Switzerland, where he died in 1977. In 2009, his son Dmitri agreed to the publication of his unfinished novel, The Original of Laura.

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