The Pawn’s Gambit: On adapting Stefan Zweig’s “Chess Story”(lareviewofbooks.org)
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The Pawn’s Gambit: On adapting Stefan Zweig’s “Chess Story”
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Thank you for sharing. I have read Zweig's The World of Yesterday, which I regard very highly, but never one of his creative works. I recommend it to everyone who wants to experience a slice of life/live vicariously with an engaged citizen of pre war Europe.
The la review website doesn't render on my smartphone (Firefox), but just reading the wiki plot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Royal_Game?wprov=sfla1), it sounds absolutely brilliant.
I can "relate" to the isolation and frantic labor on some project, which is unhealthy enough on its own. To do so under Nazi domination as a way to survive interegations with no other intellectual outlets possible, leading to project induced psychosis, is just frightening. And it's all portrayed in such a relatively light hearted, optimistic atmosphere of a transatlantic ship bringing bored passengers together for a nice game of chess. Good job, Zweig.
Anyways, time to check out the adaptions.
The la review website doesn't render on my smartphone (Firefox), but just reading the wiki plot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Royal_Game?wprov=sfla1), it sounds absolutely brilliant.
I can "relate" to the isolation and frantic labor on some project, which is unhealthy enough on its own. To do so under Nazi domination as a way to survive interegations with no other intellectual outlets possible, leading to project induced psychosis, is just frightening. And it's all portrayed in such a relatively light hearted, optimistic atmosphere of a transatlantic ship bringing bored passengers together for a nice game of chess. Good job, Zweig.
Anyways, time to check out the adaptions.
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