Защита Лужина

Zashchita Luzhina (1929) vershinnoe dostizhenie Vladimira Nabokova 20-kh godov, ego pervaya bolshaya tvorcheskaya udacha, prinesshaya emu slavu luchshego molodogo pisatelya russkoy emigratsii. Pokazav, po slovam Gleba Struve, koldovskoe vladenie temoy i materialom, Nabokov etim romanom otkryl v russkoy literature novuyu yarkuyu stranitsu. Genialnyy shakhmatist Aleksandr Luzhin, zhivushchiy skoree v mire svoego otvlechennogo i strogogo iskusstva, chem v realnom Berline, obnaruzhivaet to, chto mozhno nazvat kombinatornym nachalom bytiya. Bezuspeshno pytayas razgadat khody sudby i prervat ikh zloveshchee povtorenie, on perestaet ponimat, gde konchaetsya igra i nachinaetsya sama zhizn, protiv neumolimykh obstoyatelstv kotoroy on bezzashchiten.