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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.
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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.
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Dec 6, 2022 · In this episode, guest Leeore Schnairsohn joins Isaac Butler and Catherine Nichols to talk about Stefan Zweig’s 1943 novella Chess Story. They talk about the features of the story that seem to belong to the 19th century and to the 20th, and how it resonates with the work of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and the web comic “Garfield Minus Garfield.”.
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Jan 13, 2023 · Adapted from the novella by Stefan Zweig, “Chess Story” is a diabolically knotted psychological thriller. Tumbling into madness and exhilarated by his love of freedom, the central character ...
Dec 31, 2021 · Chess story Bookreader Item Preview ... Chess story by Zweig, Stefan, 1881-1942. Publication date 2006 Publisher New York : New York Review Books Collection
Jan 19, 2023 · Review: ‘Chess Story’ makes masterful moves in taut update of a Stefan Zweig novel. Oliver Masucci in the movie “Chess Story.”. Although the blandly nondescript title doesn’t exactly ...
Dec 7, 2011 · 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 ...
