Brief Review for Brief Book

Feb 05, 2009 19:27

This post deserves a new title. I just wanted to quickly sing the praises of Stefan Zweig's novella (short story?) Le Joueur d'échecs, which can be equally known as Chess Story, since both of these are a translation from German. (I read it in French, but whatever, it's probably great in English too.) It was written in 1942, and is less than 100 ( Read more... )

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jdk2 February 5 2009, 21:35:55 UTC
You write great reviews. If I hadn't read it already (in English) I would rush out for a copy.

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jdk2 February 5 2009, 21:36:46 UTC
You write great reviews. If I hadn't read it already (in English) I would rush out for a copy. And you didn't give anything away!

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