jenna_le 's review for:

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
5.0

A chilling and compelling, elegantly simple and yet reverberatingly profound work that achieves a lyrical quality not via superfluous verbal flourishes but through quietly committed fidelity to the thread of psychological truth, this novella traces the fractal patterns into which the glass pane of a human mind driven to the brink of insanity shivers just before its total irreversible collapse.