A review by kirsten0929
Chess Story by Stefan Zweig

3.0

[1976] (Translated from German) The account of a descent into insanity, the description of the mind folding in on itself, the psychological torture of solitary confinement was vivid. The chess board as battleground was an interesting choice to tell this story and worked well. I wasn't crazy about the main character's sitting down with our narrator and basically just relaying the whole backstory. I think I would have rather had the main character be the narrator. Paced well for the short read that it was. As always, frustrated by now knowing how much of what I am reading is author and how much is translator.