Dear chess friends,
This week we will be looking at the chess work of one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, Vladimir Nabokov.
This man will have had a destiny.
He was born in St. Petersburg in 1899. As he belonged to an aristocratic family that defended freedom and culture, he fled Bolshevik Russia.
He believed in literature, in the art of writing.
He begins by composing poems, then soon short stories.
In 1930, he signed his first masterpiece,
The Louzhin Defense
, which recounts the devouring passion and then the tragic life of a chess master.
Twenty-five later, he publishes
Lolita
.
This novel, a kind of scandalous confession, which depicts a mature man's obsession with a teenage girl, makes him famous all over the world.
The Nabokov legend was born.
The critics adorn him with all the talents, the public adulates him.
In 1962, Stanley Kubrick adapted this
Lolita
to the cinema.
The title of the book and the film invents a new expression, "
playing the Lolita
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