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.
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. They come together to try their skills against him and are soundly defeated. Then a mysterious passenger steps forward to advise them and their fortunes change. 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.
This new translation of Chess Story brings out the work's unusual mixture of high suspense and poignant reflection.
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This is my first readubg of an Austrian fiction, however, it is the last short story finished by Stefan Zweig in his life. The fiction tells a story about the encounter between the new rising World Chess Champion Czentovic, a rustic country boy and a Nazi...
評分This is my first readubg of an Austrian fiction, however, it is the last short story finished by Stefan Zweig in his life. The fiction tells a story about the encounter between the new rising World Chess Champion Czentovic, a rustic country boy and a Nazi...
評分This is my first readubg of an Austrian fiction, however, it is the last short story finished by Stefan Zweig in his life. The fiction tells a story about the encounter between the new rising World Chess Champion Czentovic, a rustic country boy and a Nazi...
評分Exciting little book! Couldn't stop reading it. Apparently the chess talent of Dr. B is above that of Czentovic, yet he lost to his own chess sickness. Control (conversation with others) and pace, as well as a clear purpose (game and victory), is vital to ...
評分This is my first readubg of an Austrian fiction, however, it is the last short story finished by Stefan Zweig in his life. The fiction tells a story about the encounter between the new rising World Chess Champion Czentovic, a rustic country boy and a Nazi...
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茨威格是個真 人道主義者,而且不是讀起來讓你感嘆是天纔的那種作者,但是都很好讀很engrossing,群眾作傢瞭。
評分很薄的一本書 很快讀完 a message from the world of yesterday
評分一夜看完
評分another old boy-ish story
評分another old boy-ish story
Chess Story 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載