Hi friends. I would like if you check out my mistakes and advice sentences to be changed in order to get better. Thank in advance.I started my acquaintance with poetry of Alexander Nabokov , as it seems strange, from the novel Luzhin's Defence. Usually the one starts reeding a novel Lolita and then reads another ones. Everyrhing seems to happen spontaneously. I don'eteven suspect as far as this book makes me think , although I get used to the chess.Before reading I know that Nabokov wrote down this novel, borrowing image from Alexander Alekhine, the great Russian chess player. Honestly, I got very interested about Alekhin, he was very creative and talented one, and his style of playing was amazing. Moreover, having extended inside his biographers' essay and found myself in the atmosphere of his games, which played with tremendous simplicity, excitement and those gave no chances to his opponents at once. All of that showed extraordinary beauty and strength of the chess and I took an interest in this novel with new power. But let me be consecutive.
Vladimir Nabokov, thу poet-emigrant, was referred to pleiad of poets, who went through fire and water in epoch of revolution.And that left its unique mark in his works. Nabokov was born in 1899 in St.Petersburg, got home education and in 1919, left Russia with his family and moved to London, and more late in Berlin. His father, Vladimir Nabokov, died in 1922 who was prominent politician and stressed (stood out against background of his liberal views) with his liberal looks (views). He defenced his opponent with his chest, historian Milyutin, in whom the terrorist' bullet was shot. It affected so much on the Nabokov's attitude towards politics that he tried to be far away from it as he could. He finished his graduate in that year in Cambridge, where he was studying an entomology. He got passion on it from his childhood. He met Vera Slonim in Berlin, the woman, who had his heart till the end of his life. He devoted his books to her alone. The son Dmitry was born in 1934, the future opera singer. Nabokov moonlighted in a different way: giving english and french lessons, tennis, making up chess' tasks and puzzles. The real material independence was given by his novel "Lolita", which was discussed hotly, and sometimes it make me laugh,, however the cohesive rows of american poets boycotted it and that left unpleasant smell. American poets called this novel ,written in english, a pornography. At first it had been published in France, and in 1958 the novel saw the light in USA and became a bestseller at once. Improving state og Nabokov made it possible to move in Montre, Switzerland. As a lot of poets-emigrant Nabokov had no permanent place to live and kepr going in the hotels. Nabokov died in 1977, 12 July.
Nabokov is very amazing poet. Having started his action in 1916, he had his collected stories published and he claimed himself to be a peculiar writer. Bunin wrote about him: "This urchin dpulled out the gun and laid everyone,me included... " His creative work, especially mature stories, joined the ranks of beautiful poems. Many writers received his culture, his style and image of writing. There were enemies (opponents) of his works. However there were no one who could say Nabokov to be an talantless. The Nabokov's prose is high-poetical. It fascinates, pierces through mind, makes one think about the real content of things. One of the most point in his works is appeal to the inner world of a human, to his soul, to his creative origin. The writer attempts to get inside the main point and shows the personal's wealth. The many writers supposed that it caused by Nabokov's sympathy for the wealthy. However, it's absolutely wrong. His heroes right are the most common people, but their simplicity tends to be reffered to social status. Such course of work can be explained by empathising with fates of nationales, who found themselves abroad. The word existence is the most suitable one to describe emigrants' living because their life is filled with a poorness,desperate and suicide. In many novels we can find the challenge to the society and limitless desperate in which the heroes leave. What is the assasin rendered for killing emigrant? The deep undesranding and approvement of the cop ("The King"). With which was emigrant paid for sympathy and love for native? There are beating and disdain. ("The cloud, lake and the tower"). What does mild person make to rise atrocity in another one? He shows the unwillingness to take herd instinct one's pshychology ("Invitation to the execution"). The broken fates rise in every work Nabokov had. And one of the shining examples is the "Luzhin defence". Indeed, there is some kind of a lyric song about loneliness of the soul, emptiness, cruelty, lie and pragmatism in his works. It's just a novel which shows the revealing of the questions Nabokov worried about. Luzhin's image is a contrast example of combination with genius and simplicity, estrangement and reticence. The way Nabokov narrates is very cheerful and it is a complicated game of words beyond which the sympathy toward personality hides out. But the same way Gogol made, Nabokov tries to conceal this note of sympathy more deep. There is just a sameness with a classical Russian culture.
Luzhin was being learned to be the same as other was and his father worried about that and urgently wanted to find out the reason of his son's apathy to the whole world. Unfortunately father never found it out. Cohesion of the pupils, having place in the school as a rule, just made this strange boy scare away. He was always finding the secluded corner to hide. Solitude and reticence are the way to avoid the problems. However, there is something in the inner world of Luzhin that isn't affected by despondency. The beatufil day became, and Luzhin remembered that for the whole life and it defined his fate. It was a board, having left on the table. And the boy is absorbed in this amazing and ancient game with a whole his talent and a soul. There was something in those 64 two-colored squares, something revealed him a world of the secrets and beauty of the ancient Indian game and he found out that, as it seemed, he lacked and the light faded before enigmatic combinations. Neither absence in school, nor old jew's death, nor parents' reproaches couldn't make his talent and finally fatal passion stop. Nabokov seems to write in very callous way but there is an inner Luzhin's world concealed, the whole harmony of his talent and wish. Just a few years passed through, Luzhin became an GM and moved abroad. Suddenly the "obliging" man appeared - Valentinov who is ready to help and offered protection. Later he wrote down the letters to Luzhin's parents, convincing them there is a wide area for his son's talent to realize and always repeating the phrase "we are friends - we get even with all". There is no suddenness Nabokov chose his image. Another way to show the "Russian soul" of Nabokov to reveal the infamy and lucre of Valentinov's image. What's about women? There is only a woman who can fall in love with that unhappy and defenceless man. She didn't find neither GM nor man, who can make a profit for her. She liked his shyness. She liked to take care of him. His awkwardness made her more cute about him. She is really into him, his hands, eyes, the way he's moving are pleasant for her. She could keep enjoying the way he painted small things, the way he read and slept. Reading through the novel, we could see the temper is peculiar to a russian, sympathy and love brought together. It's said noone can puts builds love on the sympathy. But it was nothing for her and she married him, not losing a hope, she would make him divert from fatal game, the gambit of which would be his life.
At first there were a whole world of something new and undiscovered - a literature, poems, german papers' notices, walking, wife's attention. He really enjoyed it, trying to forget his game against Thuratu which would lead to the nervous breakdown and medical treatment in the clinic. The love was becoming more strong the time passed away. She walked with him, finding a lot of ways to distract him from his obsession, realizing in chess. However, fatal moment appeared in their life seemed to be improving.
All started from Luzhin's find. The old chessboard which was in his lining from time immemorial. He had found it and tried to hide it away in scary just for the wife not to find it out. But cruel mechanism of hidden human's subconsciousness started its job. It's said the genious is almost the same schizophrenia is. He lost his slepp, trying to guess game of many moves of the life, and the time passed he realized the prize was his life. The only calmness he found is in the night, when everything was gone and he hoped he had time to deliberate his last move. The last point was appearing of Valentinov, offering to being shot in film, devoted to chessmaster, and Luzhin would play against Thurati.. Frightened, he lunged out of the office and run away without stop, and suddenly he realized his position and his consciousness deliberated a reply. Running he was hurrying to decide what's going on and what the answer should be to solve this. Having locked in his room, he found the salvation, being found on fearful circumstances, time, places and the most important - on his weak consciousness, low spirit and logic, which lodged all his mind-squares with exactness and estimation. And the end was scaring:
"Now his legs were hanging out the window and there was only a need to let his grasp slacken and it seems for him to be rescued. Befory doing that, he glanced beneath. There was a fast preparation - rhe reflects of windows was gathering together,the chasm was falling apart on dark and light squares,and in the moment he slackened his hands, icy air gushed out into his mouth and he realized which chasm exactly opened its embrace with such a hospitality."