The book includes two novels of the classic of the literature of the Russian abroad Vladimir Nabokov, in which the original refractiveness for the author of the topic of otherworldly, immortality, and the nature of the creative gift received the original refraction. In the “Protection of the Luzhin” (1929-1930) behind the vicissitudes of the life history of the brilliant and crazy chess player, the secret patterns of fate are gradually revealed, with which he will play his main, fatal, hopeless game. The hero of the “Invitations to Execution” (1934, publ. 1935-1936), a resident of the unnamed country of Cinzinnat C., is directed into true, higher reality, in the enchanting kingdom of dreams, imagination and limitless creative freedom.
Author
Nabokov Vladimir Vladimirovich
Publisher
ABC, 2015
Series
World classics
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