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To: Borges

Not Nabakov’s best work, IMHO. That would be “The Defense”, greatest novel ever written about chess (and it wasn’t really even about chess ;-) ) .


2 posted on 08/18/2008 11:39:29 AM PDT by Clemenza (No Comment)
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To: Clemenza
‘The Defense’ was also the subject of a terrible film version a few years back. It's good stuff but not remotely as layered as his best work in English.
3 posted on 08/18/2008 11:40:58 AM PDT by Borges
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