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Stefan Zweig

A Chess Story

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THE CLASSIC INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
A new edition of this classic Zweig story — an epic chess match on a translatlantic liner during WW2 unearths a story of persecution and obsession
On the deck of a transatlantic ocean liner, a crowd of passengers gathers to watch reigning chess world champion Mirko Czentovic take on a series of amateur challengers. The haughty grandmaster dispatches all of his opponents with ease, until one Dr B steps forward from the crowd — a passionate lover of the royal game who still bears the mental scars of imprisonment by the Nazis in his native Austria. The enigmatic genius reluctantly agrees to challenge Czentovic, but at what cost to his sanity?
Written during the Second World War, The Royal Game was the great Stefan Zweig's final work — a searing, suspenseful tale of psychological torment and the price of obsession.
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80 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2021
Publication year
2021
Publisher
Pushkin Press
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  • Ian Copplehas quoted5 years ago
    a person, an intellectual person who, without going insane and for ten, twenty, thirty, forty years, directs his mind’s full analytic force time and again onto the laughable task of backing a wooden king into the angle of a wooden board
  • Ian Copplehas quoted5 years ago
    ancient and yet always new, mechanical in its structure yet animated only by the imagination, limited to a geometrically petrified space yet unlimited in its permutations, always developing yet ever sterile, a logic with no result, a mathematics without calculations
  • Ali Bahramihas quoted6 years ago
    bustle and commotion

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