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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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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.
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] In some editions, the title is used for a collection that also includes "Amok", "Burning Secret", "Fear", and "Letter From an ...
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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...
Jan 19, 2023 · Review: ‘Chess Story’ makes masterful moves in taut update of a Stefan Zweig novel. Oliver Masucci in the movie “Chess Story.” (Film Movement) By Michael Rechtshaffen. Jan. 19, 2023...
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.”.
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Jan 8, 2023 · Film. Chess Story Review: Stefan Zweig Adaptation Sheds Cold Light on Historical Trauma. Chess Story craftily melds the genres of period drama and psychological thriller. by William Repass. January 8, 2023. 1. Photo: Film Movement. Chess doesn’t lend itself to the restless medium of action and spectacle that cinema is prone to.
