by Stefan Zweig · Stock · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782234015418
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«Le Joueur d'échecs» is the short novel by Stefan Zweig, published by Stock in paperback (111 pages, in French).
During a sea voyage, the world champion Czentovic, arrogant and dim-witted, faces a mysterious Austrian aristocrat, Mr. B. That stranger learned the game in captivity, where chess was his refuge and ended up driving him to madness. The duel becomes an allegory of the resistance of the spirit against oppression.
The work, originally written in German as «Schachnovelle», was published posthumously in 1943. This French edition belongs to Stock's Bibliothèque cosmopolite collection.
For readers of classic fiction and twentieth-century Central European literature, and for those seeking a short story of great psychological tension.
Stefan Zweig was an Austrian writer. At the height of his literary career in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most widely translated and popular writers in the world.
