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VNBib: Luzhin & "The Immortal Game"
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FROM: Don Johnson
In his Foreword to the English translation of the _THE DEFENSE_ VN refers to
to a famous chess game--the so-"Immortal Game" played in 1851 by Adolf Anderssen and Lionel Kieseritsky. I (and many people more chess- savvy than I) have argued that the allusion has implications for understanding the novel.
Today the L.A; Times reviewed a book by David Shenk: THE IMMORTAL GAME (Doubleday) devoted in large part to that game. Shenk's book may be worth looking at. If anyone does, please advise NABOKV-L.
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In his Foreword to the English translation of the _THE DEFENSE_ VN refers to
to a famous chess game--the so-"Immortal Game" played in 1851 by Adolf Anderssen and Lionel Kieseritsky. I (and many people more chess- savvy than I) have argued that the allusion has implications for understanding the novel.
Today the L.A; Times reviewed a book by David Shenk: THE IMMORTAL GAME (Doubleday) devoted in large part to that game. Shenk's book may be worth looking at. If anyone does, please advise NABOKV-L.
Search the archive: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/archives/nabokv-l.html
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
View Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm