A large steamship is on its way from New York to Buenos Aires. Unbeknownst to most onboard, two chess aficionados are travelling with them. One is a young man, “an odd fish”, Mirko Czentovic who’s the world chess champion and another is a closet expert who’ll reveal himself in time. Thus begins Austrian writer Stefan Zweig’s 1942 novella, A Chess Story . The Pushkin Press edition has been translated from the German by Alexander Starritt. Legendary translator Andrea Bell’s translation of the book was published by Penguin Random House as a clothbound classic. In addition to these two, various editions...
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