Title : The Chess Player - Stefan Zweig - book
Summary :
Who is this stranger capable of outwitting the great Czentovic, the world chess champion, a true prodigy as unsophisticated as he is unpleasant? Can anyone believe, as he claims, that he hasn't played for over twenty years? This is a mystery that the idle passengers of this luxury liner would like to unravel.
The narrator will succeed. The circumstances in which the stranger acquired this knowledge are terrible. They take us back to the Nazi experiments on the effects of absolute isolation, when, on the verge of madness, between two interrogations, the human brain manages to deploy its strangest faculties.
A disturbing, fantastic fable, which, as the character says with painful irony, "could serve as an illustration of the charming times in which we live."
- EAN: 9782253057840
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