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The Royal Game (also known as Chess Story; in the original German Schachnovelle, "Chess Novella") is a novella by the Austrian author Stefan Zweig written in 1941, the year before the author's death by suicide.
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.
Oct 16, 2020 · Together with his acquaintance Mc Connor and other chess players, the first-person narrator manages to challenge the world champion to a game of chess. As expected, Mc Connor and the others clearly lose the first game.
- Stefan Zweig
Each story has at its heart an extreme emotion, from the monomania of the man who learnt chess by memorising games from a book while a prisoner in “The Royal Game”, to the young woman’s adoring, obsessive love for her writer neighbour in “Letter from an Unknown Woman”.
Dec 3, 2021 · While the Nazi troops march into Vienna, the lawyer Josef Bartok hastily tries to escape to the USA with his wife but is arrested by the Gestapo. Bartok rema...
Mar 22, 2012 · The royal game & other stories. by. Zweig, Stefan, 1881-1942; Fowles, John, 1926-2005; Sutcliffe, Jill. Publication date. 1983. Topics. Short stories, Fiction, Fiction - General, Manners and customs. Publisher. New York : E.P. Dutton.
Apr 1, 2000 · The Royal Game is a very striking reflection on intelligence and torture, written by an Austrian exile early during Wolrd War II. It is highly original and moving.
- Stefan Zweig
