![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The work is also one of the rare pieces of literature to bring alive the complex and overpowering feelings associated with the great game of chess. He dramatizes the internal destruction inflicted by tyranny. It is the only story in which Zweig looks at Nazism, and he does so with characteristic emphasis on its psychological damage. Adapted with opulent attention to period detail by filmmaker and opera director Philipp Stölzl, CHESS STORY brings Stefan Zweigs stirring final novella to life. “His writing reveals his sympathy for fellow human beings.” -Ruth Franklin, London Review of BooksĬhess Story, also known as The Royal Game is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig’s final achievement, completed in his Brazilian exile and sent off to his American publisher only days before his suicide in 1942. the case history here is no longer that of individuals it is the case history of Europe.” -Stephen Spender, The New York Review of Books He has achieved the very considerable feat of inventing, in his description of the game of chess, a metaphor for the terribly grim game he is playing with his Nazi tormentors. “ writer who understands perfectly the life he is describing, and who has great analytic gifts. ![]()
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