Chess

A Novel

Stefan Zweig - Collection Penguin classics

96 pages, parution le 17/05/2017

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Résumé

'... a human being, an intellectual human being who constantly bends the entire force of his mind on the ridiculous task of forcing a wooden king into the corner of a wooden board, and does it without going mad!'

A group of passengers on a cruise ship challenge the world chess champion to a match. At first, they crumble, until they are helped by whispered advice from a stranger in the crowd - a man who will risk everything to win. Stefan Zweig's acclaimed novella Chess is a disturbing, intensely dramatic depiction of obsession and the price of genius.

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 The Royal Game (1944), but his most outstanding accomplishments were his many biographies, which were based on psychological interpretation.

L'auteur - Stefan Zweig

Né à Vienne en 1881, fils d'un industriel, Stefan Zweig a pu étudier en toute liberté l'histoire, les belles-lettres et la philosophie. Grand humaniste, ami de Romain Rolland, d'Émile Verhaeren et de Sigmund Freud, il a exercé son talent dans tous les genres (traductions, poèmes, romans, pièces de théâtre) mais a surtout excellé dans l'art de la nouvelle (La Confusion des sentiments, Vingt-quatre heures de la vie d'une femme), l'essai et la biographie (Marie-Antoinette, Fouché, Magellan...). Désespéré par la montée du nazisme, il fuit l'Autriche en 1934, se réfugie en Angleterre puis aux États-Unis. En 1942, il se suicide avec sa femme à Petropolis, au Brésil.

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Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Penguin
Auteur(s)	Stefan Zweig
Collection	Penguin classics
Parution	17/05/2017
Nb. de pages	96
Format	13 x 20
Couverture	Broché
Poids	80g
EAN13	9780241305164