![]() ![]() "His writing reveals his sympathy for fellow human beings. concentration of talents." -Herbert Gorman, The New York Times Book Review "Zweig possesses a dogged psychological curiosity, a brutal frankness, a supreme impartiality. ![]() mediums his subtlety of style, his profound psychological knowledge and his inherent humaneness." -Barthold Fles, The New Republic "Always remains essentially the same, revealing in all. Stefan Zweig’s Chess Story published by New York Review Books (NYRB) is 84 pages of literary counterpart to a master chess game of Capablanca or Kasparov, a novel where the first-person narrator, an Austrian, just so happens to be on board a passenger steamer with a world chess champion by the name of Czentovic and also, as it turns out, a. To withstand the psychological torture of the Gestapo, a lawyer imprisoned by the Nazis finds refuge in the world of chess. the case history here is no longer that of individuals it is the case history of Europe." -Stephen Spender, The New York Review of Books With Oliver Masucci, Albrecht Schuch, Birgit Minichmayr, Samuel Finzi. He has achieved the very considerable feat of inventing, in his description of the game of chess, a metaphor for the terribly grim game he is playing with his Nazi tormentors. ![]() One of the most perfectly gripping novellas from a master of the form, Stefan Zweig. " writer who understands perfectly the life he is describing, and who has great analytic gifts. An epic chess match on a transatlantic liner unearths a story of persecution and obsession. ![]()
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