![]() ![]() Lastly, there is the narrator, who offers us his angle of the story and knows how to play chess, but he only plays the game for fun, unlike the other two men. ![]() Yet, he is not as renowned as his peer Czentovic. B, who has astonishing skills in playing chess. On the other hand, there is the enigmatic Dr. He has been doing this ever since he was a child. Mirko Czentovic is the expert who knows nothing but to manipulate the chessboard to his favors. He did not live to see the success of the book. In February 1942, a short while after he had finished the novella, Zweig, who was born in Austria but at that time lived in exile in Brazil, committed a double suicide with his wife Lotte. ![]() ![]() In chess story, the characters don’t play for their lives-the way Charles Xavier and Eric Lensherr do in X-men- but they contest because that is all they ever knew and ever will know.Ĭhess Story offers three perspectives to the royal game: the champion, the amateur, and the outsider. Stefan Zweig’s novella Chess is also a farewell note. It isn’t about big confrontations between good and evil or life or death. It seems that every time a literary or cinematic work tries to depict a chess game, it always creates this fierce game where victory, loss, and aptness are outlined, but what makes Chess Story different is the new perspective Zweig uses to look at chess. ![]()
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