Vladimir Nabokov

The Defense

Moody, Fred. Nabokov's Gambit. 1976

Masing-Delic, Irene. The "Overcoat" of Nabokov's Luzhin: Defense as Self-Destruction. 2017

Kinbote, Charles. Zashchita Luzhina. 1998

Khodasevich, Vladislav. Zashchita Luzhina. 1930

Johnson, D. Barton. Text and Pretext in Nabokov's The Defense or ‘Play It Again, Sasha'. 1984

Fitzsimmons, Lorna. Artistic Subjectivity in Nabokov's The Defense and Invitation to a Beheading. 2001

Edelman, Daniel. Cooks, Forks, Waiters: Chess Problems and Vladimir Nabokov's The Defense. 1995

Drescher, Alexander N. Musical Analogies in The Defense. 2005

Downey, Glen. The Relentless Combination: Chess and the Patterns of Madness in Vladimir Nabokov's The Defense. 2000

Dolinin, Alexander. Two Notes on the Intertextuality of Nabokov's Russian Novels. 1994