Volume 24, Number 10 · June 9, 1977
Nabokov's Game
By V.S. Pritchett
Nabokov: His Life in Part
by Andrew Field
Viking, 284 pp., $15.00
Andrew Field's critical book, Nabokov, His Life in Art, published ten years ago, still stands out as an inquisitive, catholic, and satisfying study of a macabre and lyrical grammarian of genius, the pages of whose novels blister the hands as one turns them. His intellect has the fever of the classic Russian gambler. The game is sometimes cards—he writes his books on index cards, and even talks by them in formal interviews—but mostly chess, played to prosecute and win.
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