My dreadful situation forced me … to try splitting myself into a Black self and a White self, to keep from being crushed by the terrible void around me
A prisoner of the Nazis for years, what if your only stimulation was imagining games of chess against yourself, second-guessing your increasingly obsessed and divided brain? Then, decades later, you can play the World Champion, but might it return you to the edge of madness … and tip you over?
| ISBN: | 9780241747292 |
| Publication date: | 17th April 2025 |
| Author: | Stefan Zweig |
| Publisher: | Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 128 pages |
| Series: | Penguin Archive |
| Genres: |
Classic fiction: general and literary Psychological thriller Narrative theme: Interior life Fiction in translation |