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Title	:	Защита Лужина
Author	:	Vladimir Nabokov
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 544 pages
Published	:	2004 by АСТ (first published 1929)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Russia. Classics. Literature. Russian Literature. Games. Chess

Защита Лужина

Vladimir Nabokov

Hardcover | Pages: 544 pages

Rating: 3.95 | 9314 Users | 456 Reviews

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It’s Never Too Late for a Happy Childhood

A boy who doesn’t want to grow up; a mother who loses interest in him as he does; a father who writes an idealised version of the boy’s life in which he doesn’t; and an agent who values only his client’s youthfulness: clearly not the best conditions for psychic maturation; but hardly signs of abuse.

The boy finds his solace and calling in the game of chess: “everything apart from chess was an enchanting dream... Real life, chess life, was orderly, clear cut, and rich in adventure.” In this life he was safe and secure as well as internationally famous.

The death of the boy’s father, in some sense a sign of forced adulthood, is resisted. The boy won’t attend the funeral. Instead he falls in love, with a woman who possesses that

“mysterious ability in her soul to apprehend in life only that which had attracted and tormented her in childhood... to find constantly an intolerable and tender pity for the creature whose life is helpless and unhappy...”

A perfect match, therefore: she a compulsive caretaker; he the eternal child. Whether either or both is psychotic or merely neurotic when they meet is an open question.

What could possibly go wrong?

Marriage brings with it a new adult provider, the father-in-law, and a new tender carer in his wife. But it also brings something unfortunate, the recognition of the “full horror of the abysmal depths of chess.”

He has a breakdown. His wife and his doctor begin to explore his “dark period of spiritual blindness,” that is, his childhood. But it is clear to the reader that his condition is not the result of childhood trauma. Rather it is his desire to remain in a re-created childhood, free from the cares and sufferings of life outside of chess, and his fear of being removed from it, that is the cause of his distress.

Part of his therapy is complete isolation from chess. The wife knows it was necessary to find “some other interesting game.” But socialising, travel, typing, water-colouring can’t fill the chess-shaped hole in his soul. The result, of course, is that his highly functional life playing chess becomes a psychotic disaster in which he can no longer distinguish his life from the game that gave it meaning and coherence.

It’s often possible to detect who’s being helped through analysis by the haunted look in their eyes. Thank you Dr. Freud.

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Original Title:	Защита Лужина
ISBN:	5170215452 (ISBN13: 9785170215454)
Edition Language:	Russian
Characters:	Aleksandr Ivanovich Luzhin, Turati, Valentinov, Ivan Luzhin
Literary Awards:	National Book Award Nominee for Fiction (1965)

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Hands-up: I read some of this at bullet-train speed because I had to return it to the library. Yes, I could have withdrawn it again, but there were only fifty-odd pages left and some new Foster Wallace was in that set my hands a-twitchin and my brain a-spinnin.So I didnt let the sumptuous prose slowly unfold, I didnt delicately caress his sentences with the same narcissistic mania the author bestowed upon his own works. But there wasnt much sumptuousness here, anyway. His third novel is a more

Nabokov's 3rd novel, inspired, according to him, while collecting butterflies in the Pyrenees in 1929. That's notable because he's a little famous for the hobby and also because it's not a Great Depression novel, but was mostly written before that happened (in Wiemar Berlin). The story is about Alexsandr Ivanovich Luzhin, a Russian child Chess savant who has grown up. He's still famous, a masterful player appreciated most by those who know the game. But he also hasn't matured. Helpless,

We find in The Luzhin Defense many of Nabokov's playful tropes: madness (monomania, solipsism), resistance to meaning (particular jabs at the "Viennese delegation"), genius outcast from society. It is apparent that his is an early work of the master, though a masterful work still. Luzhin is a remote but somehow lovable obsessive. Our affection for him has true potential, perhaps a potential unusual for the typical Nabokovian protagonist. But that affection is abated by our narrative distance

There are two ways to review this book.1. Smarter way: Listen to Abel Korzeniowski's concert piece Song for the Little Sparrow . It speaks in the language of music far beautifully and better than what I could write in English.2. Duller way: I'll endeavour to do justice to this magnificent piece of tragic fiction through a poor reviewer's small vocabulary and a style that isn't nearly enough to capture the romance of letters from this Russian grand-master of prose. There is so much to learn from

One of the things I like most about Nabokovs novels is the structure, and this one has a particularly interesting structure.At the beginning of chapter nine which is roughly half way through the book, two new characters appear out of nowhere, two young Berliners who are trying to return home after a hard night on the town. Both of them continued farther along the deserted night street, which alternately rose up smoothly to the stars and then sloped down again.That deserted night street could

If you are a chessplayer, like me, you simply have to read this book. No one else has even come close to describing chess obsession from the inside. The style is, needless to say, impeccable.

3.50 starsPrimarily I decided to read "The Luzhin Defense" as Vladimir Nabokov's sixth novel (after "Collected Stories," "King, Queen, Knave," "Lolita," "Pnin," and "Laughter in the Dark") for two reasons, (1) I'd like to read one of his novels and compare it to his "Lolita," and (2) I liked its reader-friendly fonts which I found more relaxing and easier to read than some of those published by Penguin or other English paperback publishing companies in general. However, a bit disappointed by its