The Luzhin Defense
10 hrs. 33 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Vladimir Nabokov
Author
Vladimir Nabokov
Narrator
Vladimir Samoylov
Narrator
Vladimir Samoylov
Description
“The Defense of Luzhin” (1929–1930) is the third Russian novel by Vladimir Nabokov, which gave him a loud literary name and brought him into the first ranks of writers of the Russian emigration. Through the twists of the life story of the book’s brilliant yet one-sided hero—Alexander Ivanovich Luzhin, a gifted and mad Russian chess emigrant—the reader gradually discovers a constant and most important theme in Nabokov’s work: the development and repetition of hidden themes in human fate. The chess defense developed by Luzhin slowly becomes an allegory of protection from life itself, in which his consciousness, damaged by illness, begins to see someone else’s ominous actions—like chess moves.
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