Nabokov\'s third novel, The Luzhin Defense , is a chilling story of obsession and madness.
His own world falls apar.
He takes up chess as a refuge from the anxiety of his everyday life.
His talent is prodigious and he rises to the rank of grandmaster--but at a cost: in Luzhin\' s obsessive mind, the game of chess gradually supplants the world of reality.
As a young boy, Luzhin was unattractive, distracted, withdrawn, sullen--an enigma to his parents and an object of ridicule to his classmates.
Nabokov\'s third novel, The Luzhin Defense , is a chilling story of obsession and madness