The Royal Game: A Chess Story

The Royal Game: A Chess Story
Stefan Zweig, Alexander Starritt
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 112pg
4 Nov 2021 UK
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9781782278269
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Chess world champion Mirko Czentovic is travelling on an ocean liner to Buenos Aires. Dull-witted in all but chess, he entertains himself on board by allowing others to challenge him in the game, before beating each of them and taking their money. But there is another passenger with a passion for chess: Dr B, previously driven to insanity during Nazi imprisonment by the chess games in his imagination. But in agreeing to take on Czentovic, what price will Dr B ultimately pay? A moving portrait of one man' s madness, The Royal Game: A Chess Story is a searing examination of the power of the mind and the evil it can do.
' Perhaps the best chess story ever written, perhaps the best about any game. Never mind that you may have never moved a pawn to King four; the story will grip you. ' - Economist ' The novella is one of Zweig' s most horrifying investigations into monomania and at the same time a parable of the dangers inherent in engaging with Nazism. ' - Ruth Franklin ' A Chess Story by Stefan Zweig; the games our minds play. ' - Candia McWilliam
Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna, a member of a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a translator and later as a biographer. Zweig travelled widely, living in Salzburg between the wars, and enjoying literary fame. His stories and novellas were collected in 1934. In the same year, with the rise of Nazism, he briefly moved to London, taking British citizenship. After a short period in New York, he settled in Brazil where in 1942 he and his wife were found dead in bed in an apparent double suicide.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781782278269
Published: 4 Nov 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Pushkin Press
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 112

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