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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?

Paperback, Publication: 17 Apr 2025, Penguin 
ISBN: 9780241747292

Extent: 96 pages

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Chess: A Novel by Stefan Zweig

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      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?

      Paperback, Publication: 17 Apr 2025, Penguin 
      ISBN: 9780241747292

      Extent: 96 pages

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