Word: nataliaã
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...such a thesis offers ample opportunity for personal reflection. Indeed, Ira Jewell Williams, Jr. professor of Romance Languages and Literature Doris Sommer, also Truszkowska’s Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship mentor, notes as much in an e-mail. “Along with her sheer intelligence, Natalia??s complex cultural background… stimulate her mental and social agility,” she writes...
...title, Gorris has transformed and developed the character of Natalia from Nabokov’s book in which she is nameless. In the film, Watson arguably plays the starring role, and is certainly no less outstanding than Turturro. The story is introduced, and much of it told, through Natalia??s perspective, and it seems that she is much wiser to the complexities of the real world than her counterpart, who is lost in the complexities of the world of chess...
...Natalia??s strength is put to use in defending her mate from a variety of onslaughts. When Luzhin’s former coach, Valentinov (Stuart Wilson II), arrives with a malevolent desire to see his pupil defeated, he warns Turati that Luzhin plays poorly under pressure. Therefore the two conspire—Turati will play an aggressive game in order to create pressure on the board; Valentinov will disrupt Luzhin’s affair with Natalia in order to create pressure off the board...
Even before Valentinov’s arrival, Luzhin’s love is already threatened by Natalia??s parents, people of society who are hesitant to allow their daughter to marry such an eccentric. Yet Natalia nimbly maneuvers her way between each of these parties. Her success or failure (and Luzhin’s) is a curious question that the ending engages yet leaves unanswered...
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