"Defence of Лужина" (1929) is a vertex achievement of Vladimir Набокова 20‑х years, his first large creative success, bringing glory of the best young pen of Russian emigration to him. Showing, according to Gleb Струве, "bewitching possession a theme and material", Набоков opened this novel in Russian literature a new bright page. Of genius chess-player Alexander Лужин, above-ground rather in the world of the abstract and strict art, what in real Berlin, that can be named the combinatorics beginning of life discovers. Unsuccessfully trying to unriddle "motions of fate" and cut their ominous reiteration short, he stops to understand where a game ends and life begins, against the inexorable circumstances of that he is defenceless.The publishing layout of book is stored in the format of PDF A4.