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The Royal Game (also known as Chess Story; in the original German Schachnovelle, "Chess Novella") is a novella by the Austrian author Stefan Zweig written in 1941, the year before the author's death by suicide. [1]
Stefan Zweig (German: ; November 28, 1881 – February 22, 1942) was an Austrian writer of Jewish descent. He was born in Vienna.He volunteered to be a soldier in the First World War, and got the post as a military commentator.
Nov 8, 2014 · The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig by Stefan Zweig. reviewed by Okla Elliott. There was a time when Stefan Zweig’s books were international bestsellers, translated into many languages, and adored by a general readership and the literati alike (even Mussolini is said to have been an avid fan).
Feb 9, 2017 · On 23 February 1942 at half past four in the afternoon in a secluded Brazilian hilltown called Petrópolis about an hour from Rio, a maid and her husband pushed at the bedroom door of a modest rented house. Despite the late hour, the tenants had not yet stirred. The door swung open to reveal, lying on the bed, a young woman in a cotton dress rolled over on her side, an older supine man wearing ...
Jun 5, 2024 · The works and thought of Jewish-Austrian author Stefan Zweig are inseparable from his “idea of Europe”. His vision encompasses a nostalgic lament for a world that has been lost (along with a ...
Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna, a member of a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a translator and later as a biographer.
Stefan Zweig (/zwaɪɡ, swaɪɡ/; German: [tsvaɪk]; November 28, 1881 in Vienna – February 22, 1942 in Petrópolis) was an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer.
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