6/2/2023 0 Comments Chess story stefan zweig![]() ![]() the case history here is no longer that of individuals it is the case history of Europe." -Stephen Spender, The New York Review of Books "Always remains essentially the same, revealing in all. He has achieved the very considerable feat of inventing, in his description of the game of chess, a metaphor for the terribly grim game he is playing with his Nazi tormentors. ![]() " writer who understands perfectly the life he is describing, and who has great analytic gifts. This new translation of Chess Story brings out the work's unusual mixture of high suspense and poignant reflection. ![]() 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. Then a mysterious passenger steps forward to advise them and their fortunes change. They come together to try their skills against him and are soundly defeated. ![]() 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. It is the only story in which Zweig looks at Nazism, and he does so with characteristic emphasis on the psychological. Book Synopsis 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. ![]()
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