Роман "Защита Лужина" - первая "бабочка" мистической метапрозы В. Набокова
The novel "Defence of Luzhin" - the first "butterfly" of V. Nabokov's mystical metaprose

Summary/Abstract: In the novel "Defence" there emerges, for the first time in Nabokov's writing, a three-part model of the universe: reality physical — irrational mystic — metafictional. The specific chess colouring of the very topic of the novel. The transcendental reality appears here as the-other-world chess game, the metafiction, as chess-inspired creation.

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