DIRECTLY from the pen of Francis ...
Paul Maurensig
variant LUNEBURG
variant LUNEBURG
Publisher Adelphi
Checker can not conceive of life without the battlefield of the board. The game is bloody and legend has it that it cost the life of its own inventor. Who has got the passion remains inextricably tied to it so all-encompassing if not destructive. Who is the jew said
Tabori trying for decades without success that the perpetrator in the Nazi concentration camp forced him to play chess, putting the lives of his post as fellow sufferers. For every defeat they were executed Tabori increasing numbers in geometric progression. In this way, the Nazi officer made sure that the 'opponent plays not please him but to the best of his ability to play great, was what was before his internment.
The chance to discover it offers it to a teenage boy to whom he teaches gifted the whole art of the game, including an original version that "requires the sacrifice of a horse, after plunging into chaos, but knowing the consequences can be expected to come out victorious eight times out of ten. " This variation will be taken by the time of internment Tabori and now the young Mayer in international tournaments to serve as a bait.
The former Nazi officer, who became wealthy businessman under the name of Frisch, but remained avid fan Chess, will talk about chess in his magazine, thus allowing to identify Tabori. It will be delivered to the young Mayer to Frisch as a sign of recognition in the form of a sheet of board time of internment. Frisch It commit suicide after having played in solitude "his last game: one with death."
E 'as a novel involving a murder mystery, which I think has the structure, with clues and meanings considerations are fully appreciated only with a second reading, at least the first part. This is what happened to me.
important, timely and compelling historical setting of the story in great and fascinating world of chess which brings back business extraordinary and historical characters. Of those able to grasp in his characters and infuse the great genius, passions, psychological fragility, the nightmares and terrible loneliness. Tabori is only in search of his stubborn taskmaster and designing the plan to track him down. Mayer is reduced to a solitary wanderer and degraded after the death of his master. Frisch alone cultivates a passion for chess, buried in his golden world under a false identity.
And there are often dire, those who speak hatred upright involving entire nations in the thirties, the fatalism of the Jews of Nazi ferocity in demolishing the personalities of the victims to see reduced in the torturers of the deity per il loro potere di vita e di morte . Parlano del calvario del recluso fino alla insensibilità al dolore come condizione per la sopravvivenza. E’ sempre con stupefatta partecipazione che leggo pagine così coinvolgenti della ricostruzione storica ed ambientale di quella immensa tragedia dell’umanità. Ed a questo proposito per capire e sapere di più vorrei raccomandare due romanzi dal preponderante contenuto autobiografico: Helga Schneider “Lasciami andare madre”; Imre Kertész (premio nobel) “Essere senza destino”. La prima ha avuto una madre fanatica nazista , che tale è rimasta anche dopo tanti anni . Il secondo racconta la sua shoah attraversata con la sua vita ed i suoi occhi di adolescente.
