茨威格：象棋的故事（Pushkin收藏系列） A Chess Story

基本信息

Series:Pushkin Collection

Format:Paperback / softback 112 pages

Publisher:Pushkin Press

Imprint:Pushkin Press

ISBN:9781782270119

Published:7 Nov 2013

Weight:112g

Dimensions:163 x 135 x 10 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

《象棋的故事》是茨威格生前发表的中篇小说。小说表面上讲述了一条从纽约开往南美的轮船上一位业余国际象棋手击败了国际象棋世界桂冠的故事，实际上倾诉了纳粹法西斯对人心灵的折磨及摧残。作为人文主义者的茨威格借这篇小说表达了他对纳粹法西斯的痛恨。他以这种文学形式的抵抗加入 了世界反法西斯同盟的行列。

Chess world champion Mirko Czentovic is travelling on an ocean liner to Buenos Aires. Dull-witted in all but chess, he entertains himself on board by allowing others to challenge him in the game, before beating each of them and taking their money. But there is another passenger with a passion for chess: Dr B, previously driven to insanity during Nazi imprisonment by the chess games in his imagination. But in agreeing to take on Czentovic, what price will Dr B ultimately pay? A moving portrait of one man's madness, A Chess Story is a searing examination of the power of the mind and the evil it can do.

作者简介

斯特凡•茨威格（Stefan Zweig，1881-1942）

奥地利小说家、诗人、剧作家和传记作家。

出身富裕犹太家庭，青年时代在维也纳和柏林攻读哲学和文学，日后周游世界，结识罗曼•罗兰和弗洛伊德等人并深受影响。创作诗、小说、戏剧、文论、传记，以传记和小说成就为著称。

一战期间从事反战工作，是著名的和平主义者。一九三四年遭纳粹驱逐，先后流亡英国和巴西。一九四二年在孤寂与幻灭中自杀。

代表作有短篇小说《象棋的故事》《一个陌生女人的来信》，回忆录《昨日的世界》，以及作家和历史人物传记《三大师》等。

Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna, a member of a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a translator and later as a biographer. Zweig travelled widely, living in Salzburg between the wars, and enjoying literary fame. His stories and novellas were collected in 1934. In the same year, with the rise of Nazism, he briefly moved to London, taking British citizenship. After a short period in New York, he settled in Brazil where in 1942 he and his wife were found dead in bed in an apparent double suicide.