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By Rhetoric Date: 2002 Apr 02 Comment on this Work [[2002.04.02.18.00.30374]] |
| Nabokov was certainly skilled at the art of capturing a moment, so painfully sweet and seductive to flesh, on vellum. In all his works, there is a game of sorts being mastered by the characters. Love can easily be compared to a chess match. Within both sets of rules lie high-ranking emotions, powerful moves, and brilliant strategies. With chess lording over him, Luzhin held terror and pain, just as love holds me with the same (suffocating) grasp. However, Alexander conquered his moment, some would say with exquisite valor, by manipulating the board with his Rook. It became his final and most winning defense. I would argue that his jump was his defense (salvation). The Luzhin Defense, applied to love would be the release of the power that which love holds you. I must search for my craft, my jump to safety. |