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PS: http://hubpages.com/hub/Bardeleben-the-Chess-Master-Vladimir-Nabokovs-Inspiration-for-The-Defense :[ Cf. also Glen Downey - The Relentless Combination: Chess and the Patterns of Madness in Vladimir Nabokov's The Defense]
JM: There is a cryptic remark by Nabokov, concerning Luzhin's madness. It's to be found in the appendix to "The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov". He writes on "BACHMANN" (page 116) - "Bakhman" was written in Berlin in October 1924. It was serialized in Rul\ November 2 and 4 of that year, and included in my Vozvrashchenie Chorba collection of short stories, Slovo, Berlin, 1930. I am told that a pianist existed with some of my invented musician's peculiar traits. In certain other respects he is related to Luzhin, the chess player of The Defense (Zashchita Luzhina, 1930), G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1964.
After all, if there was a pianist "with some of my invented musician's peculiar traits", what are those other items that bring him close to Luzhin (as Nabokov says:"in certain other respects"..)?
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JM: There is a cryptic remark by Nabokov, concerning Luzhin's madness. It's to be found in the appendix to "The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov". He writes on "BACHMANN" (page 116) - "Bakhman" was written in Berlin in October 1924. It was serialized in Rul\ November 2 and 4 of that year, and included in my Vozvrashchenie Chorba collection of short stories, Slovo, Berlin, 1930. I am told that a pianist existed with some of my invented musician's peculiar traits. In certain other respects he is related to Luzhin, the chess player of The Defense (Zashchita Luzhina, 1930), G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1964.
After all, if there was a pianist "with some of my invented musician's peculiar traits", what are those other items that bring him close to Luzhin (as Nabokov says:"in certain other respects"..)?
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