by Robert Löhr · Círculo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467222586
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«La máquina de ajedrez» is the historical novel by Robert Löhr, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (372 pages, in Spanish).
In late eighteenth-century Europe, the chess-playing automaton of the knight Wolfgang von Kempelen defeats all his rivals and challenges scientists: can a machine think, or is someone hidden moving the pieces from inside? The novel recreates the famous historical fraud of an invention that fascinated a society hungry for discoveries.
Translated from German (Der Schachautomat) by Lluís Miralles; first Spanish edition with dust jacket, published in 2007.
For readers of historical intrigues and real episodes of ingenuity and deception, set in eighteenth-century Europe.
Robert Löhr is a German novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for his novel Der Schachautomat, translated into English by Anthea Bell as The Chess Machine.. His work has been largely collected by libraries.
