Vladimir Nabokov, A Bibliography of Criticism
by Dieter E. Zimmer
with additions by Jeff Edmunds

Adamovich, Georgy: In: Illiustrirovannaia Rossiia (Paris), December 7, 1929

Alexandrov, Vladimir E.: "The Defense". In: The Garland Companion to Vladimir Nabokov (ed. Vladimir E. Alexandrov), New York: Garland, 1995, pp. 75-88

Barabtarlo, Gennady. "The Defense Marginalia." The Nabokovian, Spring 1992, 28, pp. 57-65.

Boyd, Brian: "The Problem of Pattern: Nabokov's Defense". In: Modern Fiction Studies (Lafayette, IN), 33, Winter 1987, pp. 575-604

Downey, G. "The Relentless Combination: Chess and the Patterns of Madness in Vladimir Nabokov's The Defense." Antigonish Review, (121, Spring 2000), pp. 147-153.

Drescher, Alexander. "Musical Analogies in The Defense." Zembla, 6/24/05.

Edelman, Daniel. "Cooks, Forks, Waiters: Chess Problems and Vladimir Nabokov's The Defense." American Chess Journal, #3 (1995), pp. 44-58.

Fitzsimmons, Lorna. "Artistic Subjectivity in Nabokov's The Defense and Invitation to a Beheading." Journal of Evolutionary Psychology (JEP), Pittsburgh, PA. 2000 Mar; 21(1-2): pp. 5-9.

Johnson, D[onald] Barton: "Text and Pretext in Nabokov's The Defense or ‘Play It Again, Sasha'". Modern Fiction Studies (Lafayette, IN), 30, 1984, pp. 278-287

Johnson, D[onald] Barton: Worlds in Regression: Some Novels of Vladimir Nabokov. Ann Arbor, MI: Ardis 1985

Khodasevich, Vladislav. "Zashchita Luzhina." Vozrozhdenie (Paris), 30 October, 1930. English translation by Jeff Edmunds available in Zembla.

Kinbote, Charles. "Zashchita Luzhina," Chapter Nine of Silvery Light: The Real Life of Vladimir Nabokov.

Moody, Fred: "Nabokov's Gambit". Russian Literature TriQuarterly (Ann Arbor, MI), 14, 1976, pp. 67-70

Nicol, Charles. "Did Luzhin Have Chess Fever?" The Nabokovian, Fall 1991, 27, pp. 40-42/

Pekhal, Zdenek. "Kompozitsiia romana V. Nabokova Zashchita Luzhina." Rossica Olomucensia [Olomuc, Czech Republic] 30, (1991), pp. 37-42.

Pimkina, A. "Igrovoi printsip tvorchestva V. V. Nabokova: Na primere romanov 'Zashchita Luzhina' i 'Pnin'," in in Martynov, G. G. (ed.). Peterburgskie chteniia. St. Petersburg, Russia : Dorn, 1999 (Nabokovskii vestnik ; vyp. 4), pp. 135-139.

Rogers, William N. "Heroic Defense: The Lost Positions of Nabokov's 'Luzhin' and Kawabata's 'Shusai'." Comparative Literature Studies (ISSN 0010-4132), 20 (2), 1983, p. 217-230.

Roth-Souton, Danièle. "Language Deficiency as Luzhin's Defense and Vladimir Nabokov's Metaphor for Exile." Revue Française d'Etudes Américaines (Paris), July 1990, 15:45, pp. 149-160.

Shapiro, Gavriel. "References to Russian Art in The Defense." The Nabokovian 50 (Spring 2003): 58-62.

Updike, John: "Grandmaster Luzhin". The New Republic (New York), 151, 26 September 1964, p. 16

Zholkovskii, Aleksandr. "Pobeda Luzhina, ili Aksyonov v 1965," in A.K. Zholkovskii & Iu. K. Shcheglov, Mir avtora i struktura teksta: stat'i o russkoi literature (Tenafly, N.J.: Ermitazh, 1986), pp. 151-171.