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| Original Title: | Schachnovelle |
| ISBN: | 1590171691 (ISBN13: 9781590171691) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Mirko Czentovič, Dr. B. |
Stefan Zweig
Paperback | Pages: 104 pages Rating: 4.29 | 60121 Users | 4267 Reviews
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Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final achievement, which was completed in Brazilian exile and sent off to his American publisher only a matter of days before his suicide in 1942. It is the only story in which Zweig looks at Nazism, and he does so with characteristic emphasis on the psychological.Travelers by ship from New York to Buenos Aires find that on board with them is the world champion of chess, an arrogant and unfriendly man. They come together to try their skills against him and are soundly defeated. Then a mysterious passenger steps forward to advise them and their fortunes change. How he came to possess his extraordinary grasp of the game of chess and at what cost lie at the heart of Zweig's story.
This new translation of Chess Story brings out the work's unusual mixture of high suspense and poignant reflection.
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| Title | : | Chess Story |
| Author | : | Stefan Zweig |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 104 pages |
| Published | : | December 9th 2005 by NYRB Classics (first published 1942) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. European Literature. German Literature. Short Stories. Literature. Novels. Novella |
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Ratings: 4.29 From 60121 Users | 4267 ReviewsCriticism Containing Books Chess Story
One gets the sense that Zweig was projecting his inner turmoil, his insanity, into the character of Dr B. This projection was much too real, too disturbing to be fiction. Dr B's mental frailty was brought on by mental torture, total isolation, at the hands of Germany's Gestapo. Zweig's was troubled by the isolation from his country (Austria), his people, his culture. Dr B found his relief in the game of Chess, Zweig found his in writing. Quite a powerful story to be packed into 84 pages. 4.5Stefan Zweig created an extraordinary, exciting, thought provoking novel in a typical, virtuosic self-writing style.
I have long considered Thomas Mann's novella, "Death in Venice," to be one of the great masterpieces of the twentieth century, a foreboding of the doom awaiting the European bourgeoise intellectual living in an alternate universe from the revolutionary and reactionary forces about to set that continent afire. Stefan Zweig's riveting "Chess Story" is a page burner that represents the impact of the post traumatic syndrome of that conflagration upon Europe's civilized psyche. Since I am a history
With Zweig, I apparently started at the end : Chess was sent to his publisher just days before he took his own life. At first glance, it is the story of a handful of passengers on a ship to Buenos Aires who find out that a cold and condescending chess champion is on board, and challenge him to a game in the hopes of beating him. They all fail, of course, until a mysterious man shows up to give them a little advice on how the game is played. Intrigued, the unnamed narrator decides to ask him how
I detect strong parallels between reading a novel and the game of chess: there is the author sitting on one side, playing white, the reader on the other side, playing black; instead of the chess board and chess pieces there is the novel; the authors opening chapter is the chess players opening, the middle of the novel is, of course, the middle game, and the closing chapter is the end game. If both author and reader expand their literary horizons and deepen their appreciation of lifes mysteries,
The emotional wallop of this book is far out of proportion to its size. At 84 pages, I read it in less than an hour. But that hour was filled with pain and hurt and hope and human persistence and human degradation and it hurt to read. Note: The rest of this review has been withdrawn due to the recent changes in Goodreads policy and enforcement. You can read why I came to this decision here.In the meantime, you can read the entire review at Smorgasbook
...nothing on earth exerts such pressure on the human soul as a void. (19) Black. White. Which is it? Which one is our nature? We can be good, we can be cruel. We praise ourselves saying being human entails being good. We have daily proofs that is not necessary the case. If we are meant to be good and we are not, our mind have lost the battle against a deviation. Or against our true nature. Now that is a depressing thought.I had this book on my to-read shelf for months. And I wasn't going to
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