displayed post-traumatic stress disorder.
During his time in solitary confinement, he experiences 2) an induced deafferentation syndrome with emotional and agitated symptoms compatible with delirium or confusional syndrome. After being imprisoned and held in solitary confinement by the Nazis, he survives thanks to chess, his practical intelligence, and his resilience. One of the main characters displays 1) an extraordinary ability for chess and savant-like features the protagonist, in stark contrast is an imaginative intellectual who became a self-taught chess player by chance. We present a reading of this novel in which we 1) identify excerpts with neurological relevance 2) analyse its biographical and historical context (1941) and 3) use the above to complete a critical rereading and interpretation. Chess Story, a cornerstone of his later works, contains neurological references that we will examine here. As an Austrian-born Jew and a cosmopolitan freethinker, he was persecuted and his works were prohibited in Nazi Germany and its occupied territories before he was forced into exile. Stefan Zweig (Vienna 1881-Petrópolis 1942) was a highly successful essayist and novelist in his own lifetime. Álvaro Martín del Burgo 2ġDepartment of Neurology, Hospital Universitario Basurto, Bilbao Department of Neuroscience, UPV/ EHU, Spain. Lastly, there is the narrator, who offers us his angle of the story and knows how to play chess, but he only plays the game for fun, unlike the other two men.L.C. Yet, he is not as renowned as his peer Czentovic. B, who has astonishing skills in playing chess. On the other hand, there is the enigmatic Dr. He has been doing this ever since he was a child. Mirko Czentovic is the expert who knows nothing but to manipulate the chessboard to his favors. In chess story, the characters don’t play for their lives-the way Charles Xavier and Eric Lensherr do in X-men- but they contest because that is all they ever knew and ever will know.Ĭhess Story offers three perspectives to the royal game: the champion, the amateur, and the outsider. It isn’t about big confrontations between good and evil or life or death. It seems that every time a literary or cinematic work tries to depict a chess game, it always creates this fierce game where victory, loss, and aptness are outlined, but what makes Chess Story different is the new perspective Zweig uses to look at chess.
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