by Stefan Zweig · FISCHER Taschenbuch · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783596215225
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«Schachnovelle» is the short novel by Stefan Zweig, published by FISCHER Taschenbuch in paperback (110 pages, in German).
On a steamer crossing the Atlantic from New York to Buenos Aires, the narrator witnesses the duel between the world chess champion, Mirko Czentovic, and a reserved passenger, Dr. B. The game awakens in Dr. B. the memory of his confinement during Nazism, when he learned to play against himself to keep his sanity.
Originally published in 1942, it is part of the Fischer Taschenbücher series (no. 1522); this paperback edition appeared in 1997.
For those seeking twentieth-century Austrian classics and psychological tales about intellectual resistance and chess.
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.
