![]() ![]() Everything we forget about our own lives was really condemned to oblivion by an inner instinct long ago. This new translation of Chess Story brings out the work's unusual mixture of high suspense and poignant reflection. Stefan Zweig, Chess Story 94 likes Like For I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another merely by chance, but as a power that deliberately places events in order or wisely omits them. How he came to possess his extraordinary grasp of the game of chess and at what cost lie at the heart of Zweig's story. ![]() Then a mysterious passenger steps forward to advise them and their fortunes change. They come together to try their skills against him and are soundly defeated. Also on board is a group of chess enthusiasts and the world chess champion Mirko Czentovic. B, who is obsessed with the game of chess and recovering from a nervous breakdown, is on an ocean liner traveling from New York to Buenos Aires. Travelers by ship from New York to Buenos Aires find that on board with them is the world champion of chess, an arrogant and unfriendly man. Chess Story by Stefan Zweig Set during World War II, an Austrian man known as Dr. ![]() It is the only story in which Zweig looks at Nazism, and he does so with characteristic emphasis on the psychological. Binding: Trade Paperback ISBN: 1590171691Ĭhess 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. Stefan Zweig Chess Story (New York Review Books Classics)īook Condition: New Publisher: NYRB Classics, December 2005. ![]()
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