He holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Princeton University, with a dissertation on Osip Mandelstam, and teaches in the Expository Writing Program at New York University. Leeore Schnairsohn’s fiction, reviews, and translations have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Painted Bride Quarterly, the Slavic and East European Journal, Russian Review, and elsewhere. Subscribe and download the episode, wherever you get your podcasts! They talk about the features of the story that seem to belong to the 19th century and to the 20th, and how it resonates with the work of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and the web comic “Garfield Minus Garfield.” They also discuss the biographical details that may or may not give the story its special haunting quality, and whether it’s important to know about Zweig’s life-and his friendship with Freud-to interpret the text.
In this episode, guest Leeore Schnairsohn joins Isaac Butler and Catherine Nichols to talk about Stefan Zweig’s 1943 novella Chess Story. Combining literary analysis with an in-depth look at historical context, hosts Sandra Newman and Catherine Nichols choose one book for each year of the 20th century, and-along with special guests-will take a deep dive into a hundred years of literature. Lastly, there is the narrator, who offers us his angle of the story and knows how to play chess, but he only plays the game for fun, unlike the other two men.Welcome to Lit Century: 100 Years, 100 Books. Stefan Zweigs last and most famous story, A Game of Chess was written in exile in. Yet, he is not as renowned as his peer Czentovic. When it is discovered that the reigning world chess champion.
B, who has astonishing skills in playing chess. On the other hand, there is the enigmatic Dr. He has been doing this ever since he was a child. Mirko Czentovic is the expert who knows nothing but to manipulate the chessboard to his favors. In chess story, the characters don’t play for their lives-the way Charles Xavier and Eric Lensherr do in X-men- but they contest because that is all they ever knew and ever will know.Ĭhess Story offers three perspectives to the royal game: the champion, the amateur, and the outsider. It isn’t about big confrontations between good and evil or life or death. It seems that every time a literary or cinematic work tries to depict a chess game, it always creates this fierce game where victory, loss, and aptness are outlined, but what makes Chess Story different is the new perspective Zweig uses to look at chess.
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