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Chess Story
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: New York Review of Books
- Publish Date: Dec 9th, 2005
- Pages: 104
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.06in - 5.06in - 0.28in - 0.27lb
- EAN: 9781590171691
- Categories: • Literary• Psychological• Historical - General
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About the Author
Peter Gay is Director of the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. He wrote Schnitzler's Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture, 1815-1914.
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What people are saying
Adam Dalva is a book critic and professor.
I wrote about one of my very favorite books - Stefan Zweig's CHESS STORY - and how it led to my unfortunate obsession with online bullet chess, for @LAReviewofBooks https://t.co/UPyF4fbqQO
19yo.Just a girl who consume as many films as I do Häagen-Dazs ice cream after a break-up. Tokebek icitte
I haven't read Stefan Zweig's novel but this film is a very good discovery and I must get this author's books. And this very dark atmosphere, a bit like Shutter Island, gave me chills, and the actor is exceptional Full review of Chess Story LB : https://t.co/eILVJ27Tdo
Praise for this book
"Always [Zweig] remains essentially the same, revealing in all . . . mediums his subtlety of style, his profound psychological knowledge and his inherent humaneness." --Barthold Fles, The New Republic
"Zweig possesses a dogged psychological curiosity, a brutal frankness, a supreme impartiality . . . [a] concentration of talents." --Herbert Gorman, The New York Times Book Review
"His writing reveals his sympathy for fellow human beings." --Ruth Franklin, London Review of Books
What people are saying
Adam Dalva is a book critic and professor.
I wrote about one of my very favorite books - Stefan Zweig's CHESS STORY - and how it led to my unfortunate obsession with online bullet chess, for @LAReviewofBooks https://t.co/UPyF4fbqQO
19yo.Just a girl who consume as many films as I do Häagen-Dazs ice cream after a break-up. Tokebek icitte
I haven't read Stefan Zweig's novel but this film is a very good discovery and I must get this author's books. And this very dark atmosphere, a bit like Shutter Island, gave me chills, and the actor is exceptional Full review of Chess Story LB : https://t.co/eILVJ27Tdo