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

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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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The combination of Chess and Nabokov seemed to me a match made in heaven, a big fan of both, this was just too tempting to turn down, even though I knew it would take something pretty remarkable to reach the heights of either 'Pale Fire' or 'Lolita', I still felt like reading what is one of his earlier Russian novels (his third written in 1930) before he embarked on his American odyssey. The Luzhin Defence is a book that does features chess, but doesn't delve too deeply into the actual playing

A story of an ill fated chess genius. This quote by Oscar Levant pretty much sums it up: "There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."

The Luzhin Defense, Vladimir Nabokov The Luzhin Defense is the third novel written by Vladimir Nabokov during his emigration to Berlin, published in 1930. The plot concerns the title character, Aleksandr Ivanovich Luzhin. As a boy, he is considered unattractive, withdrawn, and an object of ridicule by his classmates. One day, when a guest comes to his father's party, he is asked whether he knows how to play chess. This encounter serves as his motivation to pick up chess. He skips school and

The story of love ; not the conventional human love , but the love of the obsession , the obsession for the chess , resolving the problems through the analytics , rationalization and deduction. A story about a loner boy that discovers chess ; negating the reality and indifferent to everything and everyone , the loner boy named Luzhin immersed in the intellectual abyss of this analytical game ; his obsession brings him to champions titles and his games are considered immortal and aesthetically

The observations by writer are really fascinating...

First off: I thought Luzhin was an actual chess player and that this "Luzhin Defense" was an actual opening used in chess. I must have heard or read about this book ten years ago, when I attempted (briefly) to go beyond the rules of that game, and the memory of the book somehow fused with what I now remember about chess. So I thought this book was supposed to be a sort of fictionalized biography. I was bemused by the introduction, since it didn't talk about the real Luzhin at all, but stated