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Czentovic’s father, a penniless Yugoslavian Danube bargeman, had been killed in his tiny boat when it was crushed one night by a grain steamer in a remote area; the twelve-year-old boy had then been taken in by the local parson out of pity. The good reverend coached him at home, doing his level best to make up for what the lumpish, taciturn ...
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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. Translated by Alexander Starritt, I should say – someone at my book group had a very different translation, based on our comparison of the first few lines, but it ...
Dec 31, 2021 · Chess story by Zweig, Stefan, 1881-1942. Publication date 2006 Publisher New York : New York Review Books Collection ... Pdf_module_version 0.0.17 Ppi 360 Rcs_key ...
Sep 23, 2022 · A game of chess and other stories ... Pdf_module_version 0.0.19 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220923181230 Republisher_operator associate-elena-descartin ...
Nov 7, 2013 · A Chess Story. Stefan Zweig. Pushkin Press, Nov 7, 2013 - Fiction - 112 pages. 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 champion Mirko Czentovic is travelling on an ocean liner to Buenos Aires.
- Stefan Zweig
- A Chess Story
- Pushkin Press, 2013
- Alexander Starritt
Dec 9, 2005 · Stefan Zweig. New York Review of Books, Dec 9, 2005 - Fiction - 104 pages. 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 ...
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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 champion Mirko Czentovic is travelling on an ocean liner to Buenos Aires. Dull-witted in all but chess, he entertains himself on board by allowing others to ...
