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A unique long story from Stefan Zweig, a masterfully crafted fiction, the universality of human emotions...

Chess is the last work of Stefan Zweig, one of the most prominent writers in psychological analysis and explaining the depths of the human soul, completed before his suicide. The book, which also has autobiographical features, tells the deep story of the struggle of someone who lost his spiritual balance and became alienated even from himself under the isolation of the Nazis against a "chess machine". Although the book centers on a chess match, it covers a much wider range of topics: Nazi barbarism; man's effort to transcend himself within the limitations to which he is forced; the despair brought about by the loss of hope; challenging even oneself for a new beginning; the opposition of ambition to reason; The contradictions and contradictions of rural-urban, uneducated-cultured, parvenu-aristocratic...

“I was fascinated by the crystal clear intelligence of your books.”

-Georg Rendl-

“One of the most surprising examples of a trauma being handled in literature.”

-Hannes Fricke-

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Size: 13 x 19.5

First Print Year: 2017

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

Media Type: Paperback