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  2. 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.

  3. 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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  4. Dec 12, 2022 · Insightful examination of the game of chess and its singular capacity to disclose the depths of a person’s brain and character may be found in Stefan Zweig’s novel “Chess Story.”

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  5. 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.

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  6. Jan 8, 2023 · On his way to an interrogation, Josef manages to secret a chess manual slated for the bonfire into his clothing. At long last, we witness how the game becomes Josef’s last resort of sanity and dignity before mutating into a source of madness, his world contracting to the size of a chess board.

  7. Dec 9, 2005 · 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...

  8. Nov 7, 2013 · An epic chess match on a transatlantic liner unearths a story of persecution and obsession. One of the most perfectly gripping novellas from a master of the form, Stefan Zweig. Chess world...

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