Chess player - Stefan Zweig

Section: Translated Novels

Number of pages: 109 pages

Publisher: Arab Cultural Center

“The Chess Player” is, in its simplicity, an elusive novel that appears to be a funny and enjoyable story about the life of a chess player, but in its essence is a farewell message addressed by the writer Zweig to all of humanity after he lost hope in man as he dreamed of him and defended him, man who turned into a machine of destruction whose only obsession is control and profit: the clergyman, the security man, the lawyer, the merchant, no one escaped condemnation, and no one preserved his identity in the game of transformations. The sun has set and it is time for us to say goodbye.