象棋的故事（上海译文出品！茨威格生前发表的最后一部小说；一个人用来局限自己的范围愈狭小，他在一定意义上就愈接近于无限） (茨威格作品集)

by Stefan Zweig, 李月敏 (Editor), 韩耀成 (Translator)

茨威格中短篇小说集，收录《看不见的藏品》《一个女人一生中的二十四小时》《象棋的故事》等代表作。
其中《象棋的故事》是茨威格生前发表的最后一部中篇小说。1939年，茨威格携家人逃亡巴西，《象棋的故事》的故事背景就设在开往布宜诺斯艾利斯的轮船上。一个神秘的陌生人因偶然机会与国际象棋世界冠军琴多维奇对弈，居然轻易地赢了他。可就在续弈之时，陌生人遇到了意外情况……这是他下的最后一盘棋。他从哪里来?有过怎样的遭遇?他的故事，让人惊奇，又让人心酸。

Genres: Classics, Fiction, Short Stories, German Literature, Literature, Novella, Novels

214 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 1, 1942

About the author

Stefan Zweig was one of the world's most famous writers during the 1920s and 1930s, especially in the U.S., South America, and Europe. He produced novels, plays, biographies, and journalist pieces. Among his most famous works are Beware of Pity, Letter from an Unknown Woman, and Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles. He and his second wife committed suicide in 1942.
Zweig studied in Austria, France, and Germany before settling in Salzburg in 1913. In 1934, driven into exile by the Nazis, he emigrated to England and then, in 1940, to Brazil by way of New York. Finding only growing loneliness and disillusionment in their new surroundings, he and his second wife committed suicide.
Zweig's interest in psychology and the teachings of Sigmund Freud led to his most characteristic work, the subtle portrayal of character. Zweig's essays include studies of Honoré de Balzac, Charles Dickens, and Fyodor Dostoevsky (Drei Meister, 1920; Three Masters) and of Friedrich Hölderlin, Heinrich von Kleist, and Friedrich Nietzsche (Der Kampf mit dem Dämon, 1925; Master Builders). He achieved popularity with Sternstunden der Menschheit (1928; The Tide of Fortune), five historical portraits in miniature. He wrote full-scale, intuitive rather than objective, biographies of the French statesman Joseph Fouché (1929), Mary Stuart (1935), and others. His stories include those in Verwirrung der Gefühle (1925; Conflicts). He also wrote a psychological novel, Ungeduld des Herzens (1938; Beware of Pity), and translated works of Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, and Emile Verhaeren.
Most recently, his works provided the inspiration for 2014 film The Grand Budapest Hotel.