Defense of Luzhin (1929-1930), in which the most important topics for the author of otherworldliness, death and immortality, the work of human memory, the nature of the creative gift received original development. Behind the intricacies of the life story of the brilliant and insane emigrant chess player Alexander Ivanovich Luzhin, repeating secret patterns of Fate are gradually opening up, with which he will have to play his main, fatal, hopeless game...