Name: Chess Story (New York Review Books Classics)
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Author: Stefan Zweig
ISBN: 9781590171691

portada Chess Story (New York Review Books Classics)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Stefan Zweig

Introduction by

Peter Gay

Translated by

Joel Rotenberg

Publisher

New York Review of Books

Year

2005

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.5 x 12.9 x 0.7 cm

Weight

0.12 kg.

ISBN

1590171691

ISBN13

9781590171691

Synopsis "Chess Story (New York Review Books Classics)"

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.

Stefan Zweig

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(Viena, 1881 – Petrópolis, Brasil, 1942) escritor muy popular, tanto en su faceta de ensayista y biógrafo como en la de novelista, fue uno de los escritores más polifacéticos de la primera mitad del siglo XX. Su capacidad narrativa, la pericia y la delicadeza en la descripción de los sentimientos y la elegancia de su estilo lo convierten en un narrador fascinante. Se relacionó con los grandes autores de su tiempo: Rilke, Joseph Roth, Thomas Mann, H. G. Wells, Tagore, entre otros. Tras algunas décadas en las que sus obras se vieron inexplicablemente ignoradas, Zweig ha sido recuperado y actualmente goza del prestigio y la popularidad que por justicia literaria le correspondía.

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