![]() ![]() 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, which is also a meditation on the burden of memory and the ways in which resistance and vulnerability are entwined in the human spirit. ![]() ![]() Then a mysterious passenger steps forward to advise them and their fortunes change. They gather together to try their skills against him and are soundly defeated. He is, as they soon discover, an arrogant and unfriendly man. Travelers sailing from New York to Buenos Aires find that on board with them is the world champion of chess. The work is also one of the rare pieces of literature to bring alive the complex and overpowering feelings associated with the great game of chess. He dramatizes the internal destruction inflicted by tyranny. It is the only story in which Zweig looks at Nazism, and he does so with characteristic emphasis on its psychological damage. Dull-witted in all but chess, he entertains himself on board by allowing others to. ![]() Chess world champion Mirko Czentovic is travelling on an ocean liner to Buenos Aires. One of the most perfectly gripping novellas from a master of the form, Stefan Zweig. Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig’s final achievement, completed in his Brazilian exile and sent off to his American publisher only days before his suicide in 1942. An epic chess match on a transatlantic liner unearths a story of persecution and obsession. ![]()
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