by Stefan Zweig
WOW! what a book this was! Absolutely brilliant! It Cannot be anything less than 5 stars for sure. Chess is always been an intriguing game but only if you have good company to play with otherwise it can be very boring. But this book was just mind-blowing and you really don't have to know chess to re...
bookshelves: published-1942, winter-20102011, translation, play-dramatisation, wwii Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Laura Read from December 18 to 20, 2010 ** spoiler alert ** The Viennese writer Stefan Zweig, most famous for Beware of Pity, wrote the original Schachnovelle or Chess Novel in 1942. ...
A quick read and one that is riveting from the get-go. Zweig can certainly relate a good story. His tone, always for me, is one as if a very close and trusted friend is sitting in a chair in front of me and letting me into something important I may not have known or heard of lately. Quite a talent. ...
4.5 stars. I really enjoyed this!
The emotional wallop of this book is far out of proportion to its size. At 84 pages, I read it in less than an hour. But that hour was filled with pain and hurt and hope and human persistence and human degradation and it hurt to read. This is the story of a chess tournament on a ship bound for Bueno...
'Chess Story' or 'Royal Game'Matters not, it is the sameOf monomanic Czech champAnd survivor of death campPlaying a simple game o' chessTo discover who's best.But much deeper than that(I've made 't sound flat).It's richest psychologyOf cryptic Doktor B--:The price of isolationAnd resulting chess fix...
I'd been led to believe that Zweig was a superficial popular novelist - a Phillip Roth, at best... Though I knew that Freud was a great admirer of Zweig. So I was surprised at how charming this little novella is...,The discussion of the peculiar torture to which Dr. B is subject has special interes...
The Viennese writer Stefan Zweig, most famous for Beware of Pity, wrote the original Schachnovelle or Chess Novel in 1942. The translator is Anthea Bell.blurb - It is the story of Dr. Berg (Paul Rhys) a well to do German banker who is interrogated by the Gestapo who want to find out where influentia...
The Book Report: Lumpenproletarian chess prodigy Czentovic, a boorish and unsympathetic figure, meets noble Jewish Dr. B. on a cruise. The good doctor is escaping the Nazis after a horrific torture-by-isolation. Czentovic is off to new triumphs as the world's greatest living chess master. Dr. B. sur...
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