The Luzhin Defense

Vladimir Nabokov, Зашита Лужина as V. Sirin (1930)
Translated by Michael Scammell
Penguin Books, Modern Classics, 1964, 2000

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The door was burst in. 'Aleksandr Ivanovich, Aleksandr Ivanovich,' roared several voices.
But there was no Aleksandr Ivanovich.

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