Chess

A Novel

AvStefan Zweig

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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'... a human being, an intellectual human being who constantly bends the entire force of his mind on the ridiculous task of forcing a wooden king into the corner of a wooden board, and does it without going mad!'A group of passengers on a cruise ship challenge the world chess champion to a match. At first, they crumble, until they are helped by whispered advice from a stranger in the crowd - a man who will risk everything to win. Stefan Zweig's acclaimed novella Chess is a disturbing, intensely dramatic depiction of obsession and the price of genius.

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Utgivningsdatum:2017-06-01
Mått:124 x 196 x 7 mm
Vikt:82 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Penguin Modern Classics
Antal sidor:96
Förlag:Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN:9780241305164
Originaltitel:Schachnovelle
Översättare:Anthea Bell

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Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna to a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. Recognition as a writer came early for Zweig; by the age of forty, he had already won literary fame. In 1934, with Nazism entrenched, Zweig left Austria for England, and became a British citizen in 1940. In 1941 he and his second wife went to Brazil, where they committed suicide. Zweig's best-known works of fiction are Beware of Pity (1939) and Chess (1942), but his most outstanding accomplishments were his many biographies, which were based on psychological interpretation.