Defend

Author: Vladimir Nabokov
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Publication Date: 1999-01-01
Features: In Invitation to a Beheading, Cinna pushes him aside, and Romm escapes with a mournful cry. Few people remain on the square. The platform has long collapsed into a pile of red dust. The last one to come out was a woman in a black shawl, holding a executioner who looked like a larva. Despair is a black comedy. The protagonist, Herman, is a German-descended Russian who emigrated to Germany after the October Revolution and settled in Berlin, engaging in the chocolate business. Once, while negotiating business in Prague, Czechoslovakia, he met a vagrant named Felix. Defense is a chilling novel depicting mental distress and madness. Luchin's mind is trapped by chess, and the game gradually replaces reality, replacing everything. His young and beautiful wife tries every means to make him live like a normal person. Pale Fire is truly a perfect, symmetrical, and original masterpiece, filled with moral implications throughout. The passage of time cannot obscure the fact that it is one of the greatest works of art of the century.