by Stefan Zweig · Acantilado · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788495359452
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«Novela de ajedrez» is the short novel by Stefan Zweig, published by Acantilado in paperback (96 pages, in Spanish).
Mirko Czentovicz is a chess prodigy and world champion; Mr. B., a Viennese aristocrat, flees the Nazis. On a ship from New York to Buenos Aires, the two end up facing each other in a game that reveals two opposing ways of understanding life. The novel explores human resistance under unbearable pressure.
The work belongs to the Acantilado Narrativa collection (volume 10); the original title is «Schachnovelle» and the translation is by Manuel Lobo Serra.
Recommended for those who enjoy classic European fiction, short stories, and psychological portraits of characters under historical pressure.
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.
