Chess: A Novel (Penguin Archive) - Softcover

Zweig, Stefan

 
9780241747292: Chess: A Novel (Penguin Archive)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0241747295 ISBN 13: 9780241747292
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2025

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My delight in playing turned to a lust for playing, my lust for playing into a compulsion to play, a mania, a frenetic fury that filled not only my waking hours but also came to invade my sleep. I could think of nothing but chess, I thought only in chess moves and chess problems . . .

As a chess obsessive, what if you have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to play the world champion, but it might send you to the edge of madness . . . and tip you over?

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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.

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A prisoner of the Nazis for years, what if your only stimulation was imagining games of chess against yourself, second-guessing your increasingly obsessed and divided brain? Then, decades later, you can play the World Champion, but might it return you to the edge of madness … and tip you over?

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Verlag
Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0241747295
ISBN 13 
9780241747292
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Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
96
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