The Hotel Metropol was actually the HQ and prison of the Nazi intelligence agency (GESTAPO) in Vienna. The story of Dr. B. being imprisoned with no hope of escaping and thus fleeing into a surreal world of chess is the main psychological storyline of the novel. You can clearly see how ruthless the Nazis were in not just holding people captive but in breaking the prisoner's will and mind. Additionally, Zweig, like some fellow Viennese novelists of this time (e.g. Schnitzler), admired Sigmund Freud and therefore he tried to create protagonists enslaved by psychological ambiguity.
Love the summary. I'm a new chess player, and part of my interest in the game comes from reading the novella. One of my post-pandemic plans is to travel to Petrópolis to visit the Casa Stefan Zweig museum.
Stephan Zweig's “Schachnovelle” (“The Royal Game”) is a deeply cynical analogy to the thousand year trauma of Jewish isolation in the European Ghettos, expressing Zweig’s fear of a post Enlightenment return to Talmudic study (Note: English translation, by Cedar & Eden Paul [Mr & Mrs] is most authentic to the original). ...by virtue of surreal circumstances, I grew up with Stephan Zweig - and like so many of us, Jewishness and consciousness and other life dimensions were cause for occasional attention; most especially in his later years when his crypto-jewish inner self was exiled by his national-socialist Jewish exoskeleton - and the resultant cognitive dissonance, dissociated ambiguity brought about the culmination of his ideation - his candidate for inclusion into the Tanach (should further applications ever become solicited) - The Royal Game -- wherein the prisoner was his people, the book was Torah, and the psychiatric caution was regarding post-enlightenment engagement therein!
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The Hotel Metropol was actually the HQ and prison of the Nazi intelligence agency (GESTAPO) in Vienna. The story of Dr. B. being imprisoned with no hope of escaping and thus fleeing into a surreal world of chess is the main psychological storyline of the novel. You can clearly see how ruthless the Nazis were in not just holding people captive but in breaking the prisoner's will and mind. Additionally, Zweig, like some fellow Viennese novelists of this time (e.g. Schnitzler), admired Sigmund Freud and therefore he tried to create protagonists enslaved by psychological ambiguity.
Love the summary. I'm a new chess player, and part of my interest in the game comes from reading the novella. One of my post-pandemic plans is to travel to Petrópolis to visit the Casa Stefan Zweig museum.
thank you i had to read a book in french which was the royal game and teh test is tomorrow and i understood everything thanks to your resume !
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Stephan Zweig's “Schachnovelle” (“The Royal Game”) is a deeply cynical analogy to the thousand year trauma of Jewish isolation in the European Ghettos, expressing Zweig’s fear of a post Enlightenment return to Talmudic study (Note: English translation, by Cedar & Eden Paul [Mr & Mrs] is most authentic to the original). ...by virtue of surreal circumstances, I grew up with Stephan Zweig - and like so many of us, Jewishness and consciousness and other life dimensions were cause for occasional attention; most especially in his later years when his crypto-jewish inner self was exiled by his national-socialist Jewish exoskeleton - and the resultant cognitive dissonance, dissociated ambiguity brought about the culmination of his ideation - his candidate for inclusion into the Tanach (should further applications ever become solicited) - The Royal Game -- wherein the prisoner was his people, the book was Torah, and the psychiatric caution was regarding post-enlightenment engagement therein!
wow, that's complex ... don't quite understand, but interesting, ty