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كيف تعرف أنّك بصدد قراءة عمل عبقري ؟بالنسبة لي صراحة هو تلك النوعية من الأعمال التّي تفاجئك، التّي تخبطك، التّي تلطمك، تصفعك، تضربك .. لا أدري كيف أصف حقيقة أو ماهية هذا الشعور، و لكن أظن أنّ أغلبكم قد جرّبه.تختار قصّة ما أو رواية أو حتّى كتاب وتبدأ في القراءة وكحال البدايات دائما ما يكون هناك نوع ط Leggi tutto

I detect strong parallels between reading a novel and the game of chess: there is the author sitting on one side, playing white, the reader on the other side, playing black; instead of the chess board and chess pieces there is the novel; the author’s opening chapter is the chess player’s opening, th Leggi tutto

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig It's a brilliant novella written just a year before the author's death by suicide. The story is mainly about a man tortured to near insanity during WWII and mastered the game while attempting to survive torture by the Nazis. That was incredibly well written. Emotional and Leggi tutto

- هل هي رواية ام تلخيص للحياة؟ - لنبدا من سطح النهر، قصة عن ثلاثة اشخاص، اولهم بطل شطرنج، ثانيهم محب للأشياء الغريبة المثيرة وثالثهم "إله شطرنج" ولكن بالصدفة!!.. يجتمع الثلاثة على متن سفينة تحتاج 12 يوماً لتصل الى وجهتها وتجري القصة واللعبة بينهم مع سرد لطيف لخلفياتهم وكيفية اتقانهم للعبة... - هيا لنغ Leggi tutto

”My pleasure in playing became a desire to play, a mania, a frenzy, which permeated not only my waking hours but gradually my sleep too. Chess was all I could think about, chess moves, chess problems were the only form my thoughts could take; sometimes I awoke with a sweaty brow and understood that Leggi tutto

e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 An interesting short story that it's one of the most famous works by the writer Stefan Zweig that even sadly was published after his suicide. d4 Bg4 When a story is presented in another language, some elements are lost in the translation, and I think that while Chess Story is a

‘ The more one limits oneself, the closer one is to the infinite; these people, as unworldly as they seem, burrow like termites into their own particular material to construct, in miniature, a strange and utterly individual image of the world. ’ Chess, the ‘Royal Game’, ‘ regally eschews the tyranny of Leggi tutto

We Are Never Alone With astounding concision in a short story about chess, Zweig outlines a profound psychological theory: that a human being’s greatest resource - the ability to reflect upon himself and his actions - is also his greatest vulnerability. Experience alone, without the capacity to refle Leggi tutto

Schachnovelle = Le jaueur d'echecs = Chess Story = The Royal Game, Stefan Zweig The Royal Game is a novella by Austrian author Stefan Zweig first published in 1941, just before the author's death by suicide. In some editions, the title is used for a collection that also includes "Amok", "Burning Sec Leggi tutto

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig Like most of Zweig’s work, this is a novella. For those uninterested in chess, very little of the story has to do with the details of the actual games played. The story is set on an ocean liner traveling from New York to Buenos Aires. Our narrator has only a passing interes Leggi tutto