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4.27. 138,483 ratings10,608 reviews. 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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Feb 17, 2020 · A Chess Story [also published as Chess and A Royal Game], from 1941, is the third Zweig novella I’ve read and the best so far – a really astonishing achievement in so few pages.
Jan 13, 2023 · Adapted from the novella by Stefan Zweig, “Chess Story” is a diabolically knotted psychological thriller. Tumbling into madness and exhilarated by his love of freedom, the central character...
Book Reviews on... Chess Story. by Stefan Zweig, translated by Joel Rotenberg. Recommendations from our site. “The novella parallels, in some ways, aspects of Zweig’s own life. It was one of the last things he wrote and it was published posthumously.
Dec 6, 2022 · In this episode, guest Leeore Schnairsohn joins Isaac Butler and Catherine Nichols to talk about Stefan Zweig’s 1943 novella Chess Story. They talk about the features of the story that seem to belong to the 19th century and to the 20th, and how it resonates with the work of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and the web comic “Garfield Minus Garfield.”.
Stefan Zweig's novella "Chess", which Zweig wrote during World War II in exile in Brazil, shortly before committing suicide with his wife Lotte, is considered as one of the greatest literary works on chess. It also has been tremendously successful and popular.
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Dec 9, 2005 · In Chess Story, a posthumously published novella by the great Stefan Zweig, the author explores nazism through the interactions between players on board a ship after discovering that one of the passengers is the world champion chess player.
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