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Luzhina Defense

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"The Luzhin Defense" (1929) is Vladimir Nabokov's crowning achievement of the 1920s, his first major creative success, earning him fame as the finest young writer of the Russian émigré community. Demonstrating, in the words of Gleb Struve, "a magical mastery of theme and material," Nabokov with this novel opened a new, vibrant chapter in Russian literature.

The brilliant chess player Alexander Luzhin, living more in the world of his abstract and austere art than in the real world of Berlin, discovers what might be called the combinatorial principle of existence. Unsuccessfully attempting to unravel the "moves of fate" and interrupt their ominous repetition, he loses track of where the game ends and life itself begins, against whose inexorable circumstances he is defenseless.
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