A review by delaguila19
Novela de ajedrez by Stefan Zweig

4.0

Stefan Zweig is a great writer and this seems to me to be his most critical novel of Nazism in a way that is not as covert as in his other works of fiction. The narration is from the point of view of a third character who narrates from the context and origin of the players and the chess game, which is the most exciting part of the novel. Mr. B. versus Mirko Czentovicz. An intellectual taken to the extreme in his captivity at the hands of the Gestapo and who lost his sanity because of what had contradictorily saved him for so long, against the invincible world chess champion Czentovicz, the unfriendly peasant without any intellectual interest. whose only motivation was money. The game leads the two characters to reveal particular aspects of their personality, bringing out extreme behaviors. In short, a great work that is easy to read, dynamic and, above all, very well written.