The book was completed in Brazilian exile and sent to his American. He holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Princeton University, with a dissertation on Osip Mandelstam, and teaches in the Expository Writing Program at New York University. Chess Story is the final novel by the world famous Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. Leeore Schnairsohn’s fiction, reviews, and translations have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Painted Bride Quarterly, the Slavic and East European Journal, Russian Review, and elsewhere. Subscribe and download the episode, wherever you get your podcasts! They talk about the features of the story that seem to belong to the 19th century and to the 20th, and how it resonates with the work of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and the web comic “Garfield Minus Garfield.” They also discuss the biographical details that may or may not give the story its special haunting quality, and whether it’s important to know about Zweig’s life-and his friendship with Freud-to interpret the text. In 1934, with Nazism entrenched, Zweig left Austria for England, and became a British citizen in 1940. Recognition as a writer came early for Zweig by the age of forty, he had already won literary fame. In this episode, guest Leeore Schnairsohn joins Isaac Butler and Catherine Nichols to talk about Stefan Zweig’s 1943 novella Chess Story. Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna to a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. Combining literary analysis with an in-depth look at historical context, hosts Sandra Newman and Catherine Nichols choose one book for each year of the 20th century, and-along with special guests-will take a deep dive into a hundred years of literature. Welcome to Lit Century: 100 Years, 100 Books.
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