Chess Story (New York Review Books Classics)
ISBN-13:
9781590171691
ISBN-10:
1590171691
Author:
Stefan Zweig
Publication date:
2005
Publisher:
NYRB Classics
Format:
Paperback
104 pages
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ISBN-13:
9781590171691
ISBN-10:
1590171691
Author:
Stefan Zweig
Publication date:
2005
Publisher:
NYRB Classics
Format:
Paperback
104 pages
Summary
Chess Story (New York Review Books Classics) (ISBN-13: 9781590171691 and ISBN-10: 1590171691), written by authors
Stefan Zweig, was published by NYRB Classics in 2005.
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Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final achievement, completed in Brazilian exile and sent off to his American publisher only 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.
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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