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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
- 1943
The Royal Game is a good tale which was made into the film "Brainwashed" that I saw many moons ago, but it was "The Burning Secret" that I liked best. Zweig [1881-1942] had a keen insight to the human mind, especially its darker side.
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Read “The Royal Game”, by Stefan Zweig online on Bookmate – On a cruise ship bound for Buenos Aires, an electifying encounter takes place between the reigning world chess champion and an unknown passe….
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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Mar 22, 2012 · (1 of 276) The royal game & other stories. by. Zweig, Stefan, 1881-1942; Fowles, John, 1926-2005; Sutcliffe, Jill. Publication date. 1983. Topics. Short stories, Fiction, Fiction - General, Manners and customs. Publisher. New York : E.P. Dutton. Collection. internetarchivebooks; printdisabled; inlibrary. Contributor. Internet Archive. Language.
The psychological novella The Royal Game (1944; Schachnovelle, 1942) is of special importance within Stefan Zweig 's oeuvre since it was his last work, written shortly before his suicide in 1942 and published posthumously in Buenos Aires in the same year.
The Royal Game. Stefan Zweig. Pushkin Press, Aug 31, 2007 - Fiction - 96 pages. On a cruise ship bound for Buenos Aires, an electifying encounter takes place between the reigning world chess...
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