Vladimir Nabokov. Luzhin's defense
- Publisher: Azbuka-Klassika
- Author(s): Nabokov
- Language: Russian
- Size: reduced
- Volume: 288 p.
- Binding: solid
- DateOfIssue: 2009
paper book
10.37 $
Description:
"Luzhin's Defense" is the third Russian novel by Vladimir Nabokov, which made the author a loud literary name and put him in the first row of writers of Russian foreign countries. Behind the vicissitudes of the life history of the genius of the book, the gifted and crazy Russian émigré chess player Alexander Ivanovich Luzhin, the reader is gradually exposed to the constant and most important theme of Nabokov’s creativity - the development and repetition of secret themes in human destiny. The chess defense developed by Luzhin is gradually becoming an allegory of defense against life itself, in which its sinful consciousness wreaks through some sinister actions like chess moves. In the eventual repetitions of his biography, Luzhin sees the consequence of the fateful actions of his invisible opponent - fate, and, having failed to unravel its hidden patterns, he chooses the only possible solution - exit the game ...
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