Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Adapted with opulent attention to period detail by filmmaker and opera director Philipp Stölzl, Chess Story brings Stefan Zweig’s stirring final novella to life. Chess Story - Ebook written by Stefan Zweig. Travellers on a ship from New York to Buenos Aires find that a fellow passenger is the world champion of chess. This is the only story in which Zweig looks at Nazism. But recounting his story to his fellow travelers, it’s clear that his encounters with both the Gestapo and with the royal game itself have not stopped haunting him. The novella Chess Story was Stefan Zweig’s last piece of work, written in Brazil and sent to his publisher only days before he and his wife committed suicide in 1942. As the action flashes forward to a transatlantic crossing on which he is a passenger, it seems as though Bartok has finally found freedom. For this, the PDF and DOC formats are suitable. To withstand the torture of isolation, Bartok disappears into the world of chess, maintaining his sanity only by memorizing every move. Download the book for free in PDF, FB2, EPUb, DOC and TXT Download the free e-book by Stefan Zweig, Chess Story, in English. Just as his mind is beginning to crack, Bartok happens upon a book of famous chess games. Refusing to cooperate, Bartok is locked in solitary confinement. As a former notary to the deposed Austrian aristocracy, he is told to help the local Gestapo leader gain access to their private bank accounts in order to fund the Nazi regime.
Josef Bartok (Oliver Masucci) is preparing to flee to America with his wife Anna when he is arrested by the Gestapo. Vienna, 1938: Austria is occupied by the Nazis.
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