Una partida de ajedrez

by Stefan Zweig

Overview

es la última novela del escritor austriaco Stefan Zweig escrita poco antes de su suicidio, ocurrido el 22 de febrero de 1942. Fue publicada de forma póstuma en 1944.

El relato es una crítica clara contra el nazismo y los métodos de la Gestapo, la incomunicación y el exilio forzado, experimentado por Zweig, quién jamás regresaría a su Austria natal.1 Novela de ajedrez está considerada su obra maestra.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781519586810
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	11/28/2015
Pages:	50
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.10(d)
Language:	Spanish

About the Author

Stefan Zweig (1881—1942) spent his youth studying philosophy and the history of literature in Vienna and belonged to a pan-European cultural circle that included Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Richard Strauss. In 1934, under National Socialism, Zweig fled Austria for England, where he authored several novels, short stories, and biographies. In 1941 Zweig and his second wife traveled to Brazil, where they both committed suicide. NYRB Classics published his novels Chess Story and Beware of Pity.