I examine two such threads: the underappreciated artistic communion between the protagonist Luzhin and his great rival Turati and the parodic portrayal of Luzhin’s father, who fails at length to write the kind of novel within which Nabokov places him. Furthermore, The Luzhin Defense, though often considered to be a literary chess problem, in fact focuses on the notion of artistic careers in exile. I look at the function of the novel in Nabokov’s career, placing it in relation to his contemporaneous articles and reviews, demonstrating how it can be understood as a strategic move effecting his transition, in publishing terms, from Berlin to Paris, and from relative obscurity to broad acclaim. This article argues that Vladimir Nabokov’s 1929 novel The Luzhin Defense demonstrates the importance of literary competition, rivalry, and co-creation to the Russian interwar emigration, 1920-40.
KEYWORDS Chess, Imagination, Causal theory of perception, Structural realism, Intrinsic properties, Grover Maxwell, Phenomenology, Perceptual experience, Spatial representation, Adriaan de Groot. These findings support a qualified form of structural realism. Our implicit grasp of the relational structure of the physical world is compatible with the fact that we experience the physical world as comprising a wide range of different kinds of objects, instantiating rich and varied high-level properties, and permeated by value. A phenomenological investigation of the way that chess players think reveals important parallels between our grasp of the possibilities latent in a chess position, and our perceptual understanding of the essentially spatial nature of physical objects, a connection that has implications for philosophical theories of perception. 'Chess, Imagination and Perceptual Understanding' Paul Coates ABSTRACT This paper examines the role of the imagination in the way that human chess players (as contrasted with computers) exercise their understanding of both tactics and strategy.
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