by Stefan Zweig · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253057840
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«Le joueur d'échecs» is the short novel by Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche in paperback (95 pages, in French).
On a boat trip, Czentovic, the world chess champion, coarse and unpleasant, faces a stranger who claims not to have played in over twenty years. The origin of his skill lies in the Nazi experiments on absolute isolation. A disturbing fable about obsession, madness and resistance to oppression.
Originally published in 1942 as «Schachnovelle»; this French edition (1991) is number 7309 in the Le Livre de Poche collection.
For readers of classics and twentieth-century European fiction, especially those interested in short stories with psychological tension.
Stefan Zweig was an Austrian writer. At the height of his literary career in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most widely translated and popular writers in the world.
