Chess Story
About This Novel
"The Story of Chess" is a novel written only three days before the end of Austrian writer Zweig's life, and it is also his true masterpiece. Because he was deeply influenced by Freud, Zweig was very good at psychological description and was known as the "hunter of the human soul". The novel tells the story of an amateur chess player who defeats a talented player. This amateur chess player had almost never played real chess; he accidentally stole a chess book when he was under fascist supervision. Since then, this book has become his only spiritual sustenance. He studied chess books crazily and even split into two selves playing chess in his mind. In the endless time and extremely limited space, he could only use this method to relieve the huge pain in his soul. In this work, Zweig truly presents the psychological changes that occur after people are imprisoned physically and deprived of their spiritual life.
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