{"product_id":"9781805332411-a-chess-story","title":"A Chess Story","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStark, intense, overpowering,\u003ci\u003e A Chess Story\u003c\/i\u003e is a grandmaster's examination of madness and the power of a mind willing to sacrifice everything to win.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Perhaps the best chess story ever written, perhaps the best about any game' \u003ci\u003eEconomist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Zweig belongs with those masters of the novella - Maupassant, Turgenev, Chekhov' Paul Bailey, \u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChess champion Mirko Czentovic is travelling on an ocean liner to Buenos Aires. Dull-witted in all but chess, he entertains himself on board by allowing others to challenge him in the game, before beating each of them and taking their money. But there is another passenger with a passion for chess: Dr B, previously driven to insanity during Nazi imprisonment by the games played in his imagination. In agreeing to take on Czentovic, what price will Dr B ultimately pay?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStark, intense, overpowering, \u003ci\u003eA Chess Story\u003c\/i\u003e is a grandmaster's examination of madness and the power of a mind willing to sacrifice everything to win.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart of the Pushkin Press Classics series: timeless storytelling by icons of literature, hand-picked from around the globe.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslated by Alexander Starritt.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna, a member of a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a translator and later as a biographer. Zweig travelled widely, living in Salzburg between the wars, and enjoying literary fame. His stories and novellas were collected in 1934. In the same year, with the rise of Nazism, he briefly moved to London, taking British citizenship. After a short period in New York, he settled in Brazil where in 1942 he and his wife were found dead in bed in an apparent double suicide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlexander Starritt is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eWe Germans\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Beast\u003c\/i\u003e. His translations of \u003ci\u003eThe Unhappiness of Being a Single Man\u003c\/i\u003e by Franz Kafka and \u003ci\u003eLate Fame\u003c\/i\u003e by Arthur Schnitzler are also published by Pushkin Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55351103750518,"sku":"9781805332411","price":7.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_41142775_2e75e5bb-8118-457e-9ffd-ac43f1a8faf9.jpg?v=1778119690","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781805332411-a-chess-story","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}