An epic chess match on a transatlantic liner unearths a story of persecution and obsession. One of the most perfectly gripping novellas from a master of the form, Stefan Zweig.Chess world 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 b...
An epic chess match on a transatlantic liner unearths a story of persecution and obsession. One of the most perfectly gripping novellas from a master of the form, Stefan Zweig.Chess world 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 chess games in his imagination. But in agreeing to take on Czentovic, what price will Dr B ultimately pay? A moving portrait of one man's madness, A Chess Story is a searing examination of the power of the mind and the evil it can do.'The rediscovery of this extraordinary writer could well be on a par with last year's refinding of the long-lost Stoner, by John Williams, and which similarly could pluck his name out of a dusty obscurity.' Simon Winchester, Telegraph'Perhaps the best chess story ever written, perhaps the best about any game. Never mind that you may have never moved a pawn to King four; the story will grip you.' Economist'His great achievement in short form'The Times A staunch pacifist after his time in the Ministry of War during the First World War, Stefan Zweig was, at his peak, one of the bestselling and most widely acclaimed authors in the world. Following Hitler's rise to power, he and his second wife fled Austria; first to England, then to America, and finally, in 1940, they travelled together to Brazil, where the couple took an overdose and died. Much of his work is available from Pushkin Press.
作者简介
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Stefan 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 ...
Stefan 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.
眼角的花朵
上海译文出版社2007版
雷貝卡
上海译文出版社2007版
水橋あきら
上海译文出版社2016版
乔克儿
浙江文艺出版社2000版
0 有用 林泉高致 2017-07-21 22:25:40
..学到了interrogate的技巧(好像哪里不对)；心理描写很棒
0 有用 莞尔和丸子 2024-01-02 20:47:45 浙江
直呼过瘾 短篇就是能让人不断颅内高潮。B天才中的天才 相比C就是毫无棋品的赚钱机器了。一开始的C原来是配角，中间插入的故事才是精华，细腻的心理描写简直如同我肚子里的蛔虫。没有书读的世界简直不敢想象呀。
0 有用 Vickyyy 2023-06-24 15:34:43 美国
這個故事太精彩了！中間那段有點武俠小說的感覺，甚至有點羨慕他，最後又看得很難過😫
0 有用 小小X 2024-05-04 04:05:32 英国
文笔精彩流畅。真是让人唏嘘的结局。
0 有用 小小X 2024-05-04 04:05:32 英国
文笔精彩流畅。真是让人唏嘘的结局。
0 有用 莞尔和丸子 2024-01-02 20:47:45 浙江
直呼过瘾 短篇就是能让人不断颅内高潮。B天才中的天才 相比C就是毫无棋品的赚钱机器了。一开始的C原来是配角，中间插入的故事才是精华，细腻的心理描写简直如同我肚子里的蛔虫。没有书读的世界简直不敢想象呀。
0 有用 Vickyyy 2023-06-24 15:34:43 美国
這個故事太精彩了！中間那段有點武俠小說的感覺，甚至有點羨慕他，最後又看得很難過😫
0 有用 林泉高致 2017-07-21 22:25:40
..学到了interrogate的技巧(好像哪里不对)；心理描写很棒