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Titel: Die Schachnovelle
Autor:: Stefan Zweig
Erzähler: Anna Hartmann
Format: Unabridged
Spieldauer: 1 hr and 57 mins
Sprache: Deutsch
Veröffentlichungsdatum: 11-05-14
Herausgeber: Kompendio
Bewertung: 4 von 5 von 1 Stimmen
Kategorien: Classics, World Literature
Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:
Auf einer Schiffsreise von New York nach Buenos Aires fordert der Millionär McConner den ungeschlagenen Schachweltmeister Mirko Czentovic zu einer Partie heraus. Wie erwartet scheint die Partie für McConner fast verloren, als sich ein mysteriöser Dr. B. in das Spiel einmischt und ein Remis gegen Czentovic rausholt. Fasziniert von der talentierten Spielweise des Unbekannten fordert er Dr. B. zu einer weiteren Partie heraus. Dieser erzählt während einer ungewöhnlichen Schachpartie, wie er zum Schach gekommen ist...
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There are two things that really annoyed me: (1) The Foreword (from the editor) gives ...
There are two things that really annoyed me:
(1) The Foreword (from the editor) gives out too much details about the plot. Once you have read it the reading experience of the Schachnovelle itself is spoiled.
(2) There are a number of typos (in particular with umlauts and punctuation marks), some wrong hyphenations, and at least one out of context line. It is clear that prior to printing there has been no thorough proof reading.
It's a shame.
Five Stars
My husband is the German student, so I can't rate .
Life in a 'Skinner Box'
I didn't esteem this acclaimed novella when I first read it on assignment in a German Lit class at Harvard in 1962. Perhaps the class met too early in the morning, or perhaps I didn't respond to its polished conventionality, its old-fashioned artifice in that era of exaggerated literary experimentalism. Otherwise I can't explain why I dismissed it so heedlessly. Not only is it splendidly composed -- flawless in fact except for one odd glitch in the 'timing' of the narrative -- but also it should have spoken plainly and powerfully to my own milieu. I'll try to make amends, to give credit where credit is certainly due and overdue.
Die Schachnovelle tells of an improvised chess match between two passengers on a ship. One is the 'world champion' Mirko Czentovic, a surly, illiterate peasant with Apsberger-like monomaniacal genius at the game. The other is Dr. B, a Jewish Austrian royalist, who had been interrogated by the Gestapo following the Anschluss in 1938 and who has now been 'granted' exile. The primary first-person narrator is McConner, an engineer with a bent for psycholanalysis who happens to remember salient details about the career of Czentovic and who therefore hopes to probe the phenomenon of his special ability. Most of the story, however, comes second-hand from Dr. B, who confides the shocking truth of his own 'chess-madness' to McConner on deck over several hours. It's the same technique of using a 'displaced narrator' that Joseph Conrad employed so brilliantly in many of his novels; whether Zweig was consciously indebted to Conrad I can't say, but this is the second example of such Conradian structure that I've noted in Zweig's writing, the other being his short novella Der Amoklaufer. Zweig uses his narrative 'Chinese boxes' with fine precision and aplomb.
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