On the other hand, we certainly shouldn’t forget that Zweig’s prose is worth returning to because, like Proust or Collette, it’s pure pleasure to read him. Like Walter Benjamin, whose suicide may have elevated his philosophical stature a notch, taking one’s own life can also imbue an artist’s work with a tragic shadow that might dim its light a few lumens. Certainly, the end of Zweig’s life, inspired as it was by a feeling that the brutality of the Nazi era had forever snuffed out the radiance of Viennese Enlightened high culture even as Hitler was defeated, poses a certain challenge to those of us still living on the side of civilization: what if he was right? It’s a bit hard not to wonder, though, to what extent his sparkling prose and tight, clever stories are still overshadowed by the details of his death. And then, he was “rediscovered,” which is all for the good ( although I hadn’t known he was ever forgotten).
Most of these books are available as e-books and audiobooks through SimplyE and OverDrive and all are available for checkout from our Grab and Go locations.For the longest time, Stefan Zweig was little-known and much forgotten in the English-reading world. Stories with women and men dealing with past mistakes, family drama, the pitfalls of fame and discovering a found family. Books set during the mid-20th century in America, Europe and Russia and coming-of-age stories full of angst, psychological trauma, and introspection. I wanted fiction books that felt like The Queen’s Gambit. He became obsessed with the game of chess, playing it and studying strategy until he finally sobered up, moved to New York City, and wrote The Queen’s Gambit.Īs soon as I finished the series, I wanted non-fiction books about chess, chess history, obsession, and young prodigies. For nearly twenty years, he drank and didn’t write instead, he turned from the pool hall to chess. For much of the 1950s and 60s, he was a celebrated writer and then he started drinking.a lot. Tevis is famous for his pool hall novels, The Hustler and The Color of Money which were turned into classic films.
It is a coming-of-age story of a girl dealing with psychological trauma, abandonment issues, high-stakes competitions, fame, and is also filled with gorgeous costumes.īased on the 1983 book The Queen’s Gambit by Walter Tevis, the story had been bouncing around Hollywood for a while before finally getting made into a series. As someone who knows nothing about chess beyond the fact that I do not understand it, I was riveted by the chess scenes but the series is more than that. A show about an orphan girl in Kentucky in the 1950s who becomes obsessed with the game of chess and becomes a prodigy at a very young age in a game dominated by men. Like many people, I have found myself loving the Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit.
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