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The Luneburg Variation
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Author : Paolo Maurensig
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2016-09-13
The Luneburg Variation written by Paolo Maurensig and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-13 with Fiction categories.
"Not since White Knights of Reykjavik, George Steiner's riveting account of the 1972 world championship match between Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer, has a writer demonstrated such stunning insight into the nurturing madness that compels chess play at the master level." - Publishers Weekly At the opening of this amazing fiction from Paolo Maurensig, The Luneburg Variation, a cadaver is discovered, the body of a wealthy businessman from Vienna, apparently a suicide without plausible motivation. Next to the body is a chessboard made of rags with buttons for pieces whose positions on the board may hold the only clue. As the plot of this passionately colored, coolly controlled thriller unfolds, we meet two chess players—one a clever, persecuted Jew, the other a ruthless, persecuting German—who have faced each other many times before and played for stakes that are nothing less than life itself.
The Luneburg Variation Ome
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Author : Paulo Maurensig
language : en
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Release Date : 1998-09
The Luneburg Variation Ome written by Paulo Maurensig and has been published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-09 with categories.
Luneburg Variation
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Author : Paulo Maurensig
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999-05-01
Luneburg Variation written by Paulo Maurensig and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-05-01 with categories.
The L Neburg Variation
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Author : Paolo Maurensig
language : en
Publisher: Lawbook Company
Release Date : 1998
The L Neburg Variation written by Paolo Maurensig and has been published by Lawbook Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Chess categories.
This novel tells the story of a duel to the death, of a chess game that remained unfinished for over 50 years. When a German businessman is found shot dead, a mystery unfolds which carries the reader back to the man's rivalry with a brilliant Jewish chess player, and to the secret in their past.
Canone Inverso
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Author : Paolo Maurensig
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Canone Inverso written by Paolo Maurensig and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Austria categories.
This novel, set in Austria in the 30s is about musical passions and jealousy. It begins with the purchase at an auction of a 300-year-old violin with an unusual carving at the top of the neck - a precise reproduction of a man's face. The new owner is plunged almost immediately into the instrument's strange history.
Theory Of Shadows
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Author : Paulo Maurensig
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2018-01-16
Theory Of Shadows written by Paulo Maurensig and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-16 with Fiction categories.
The strange circumstances surrounding the death of the world chess champion and alleged Nazi collaborator Alexander Alekhine, as investigated by a literary grand master On the morning of March 24, 1946, the world chess champion Alexander Alekhine—“sadist of the chess world,” renowned for his eccentric behavior as well as the ruthlessness of his playing style—was found dead in his hotel room in Estoril, Portugal. He was fully dressed and wearing an overcoat, slumped back in a chair, in front of a meal, a chessboard just out of reach. The doctor overseeing the autopsy certified that Alekhine died of asphyxiation due to a piece of meat stuck in his larynx and assured the world that there was absolutely no evidence of suicide or foul play. Some, of course, have commented that the photos of the corpse look suspiciously theatrical, as though staged. Others have wondered why Alekhine would have sat down to his dinner in a hot room while wearing a heavy overcoat. And what about all these rumors concerning Alekhine’s activities during World War II? Did he really pen a series of articles on the inherent inferiority of Jewish chess players? Can he really be seen in photographs with high-ranking Nazi officials? And as for his own homeland, is it true that the Russians considered him a traitor, as well as a possible threat to the new generation of supposedly superior Soviet chess masters? With the atmosphere of a thriller, the insight of a poem, and a profound knowledge of the world of chess (“the most violent sport there is,” according to the Russian world champion Garry Kasparov), Paolo Maurensig’s Theory of Shadows leads us through the life and death of Alekhine: not so much trying to figure out whodunit as using the story of one infuriating and unapologetic genius to tease out “that which the novel alone can discover.”
Narrative And Imperative
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Author : Risa B. Sodi
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2007
Narrative And Imperative written by Risa B. Sodi and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
Narrative & Imperative is the first book in English on Italian Holocaust writing as a whole. Risa Sodi explores the work of eight representative authors, including the internationally famous (Primo Levi, Giorgio Bassani, and Elsa Morante) and the lesser known (Giacomo Debenedetti, Paolo Maurensig, Liana Millu, Bruno Piazza, and Giuliana Tedeschi). She examines issues of genre, language, gender, and facticity while situating the works studied within the fields of European and Holocaust letters. A brief history of the Italian Jews - the oldest Jewish community in Europe - opens the book, and the conclusion brings the study up to recent times.
Italian Literature Since 1900 In English Translation 1929 2016
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Author : Robin Healey
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2019-03-07
Italian Literature Since 1900 In English Translation 1929 2016 written by Robin Healey and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
Providing the most complete record possible of texts by Italian writers active after 1900, this annotated bibliography covers over 4,800 distinct editions of writings by some 1,700 Italian authors. Many entries are accompanied by useful notes that provide information on the authors, works, translators, and the reception of the translations. This book includes the works of Pirandello, Calvino, Eco, and more recently, Andrea Camilleri and Valerio Manfredi. Together with Robin Healey's Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation, also published by University of Toronto Press in 2011, this volume makes comprehensive information on translations from Italian accessible for schools, libraries, and those interested in comparative literature.
Chess Lists 2d Ed
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Author : Andy Soltis
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2015-10-02
Chess Lists 2d Ed written by Andy Soltis and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-02 with Games & Activities categories.
The best, the worst, the shortest, the oddest, the longest, the most deceitful, the most memorable, the most brilliant, the dumbest--of players, games, matches, tournaments, books, ideas, etc. The lists are replete with background detail and exact facts--this second edition of Soltis's classic 1984 book is altogether an essential part of any chess collection and a browser's delight. The new edition contains 25 percent more lists, games, diagrams and annotations. The majority of lists from the first edition have been updated or expanded--or both.
How To Write Like Tolstoy
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Author : Richard Cohen
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2016-05-17
How To Write Like Tolstoy written by Richard Cohen and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
A thought-provoking journey inside the minds of the world’s most accomplished storytellers, from Shakespeare to Stephen King NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SPECTATOR • “Richard Cohen’s book acted as a tonic to me. It didn’t make me more Russian, but it fired up my imagination. I have never annotated a book so fiercely.”—Hilary Mantel “There are three rules for writing a novel,” Somerset Maugham is said to have said. “Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.” How then to bring characters to life, find a voice, kill your darlings, or run that most challenging of literary gauntlets, writing a sex scene? What made Nabokov choose the name Lolita? Why did Fitzgerald use firstperson narration in The Great Gatsby ? How did Kerouac, who raged against revision, finally come to revise On the Road ? Veteran editor and author Richard Cohen takes us on an engrossing journey into the lives and minds of the world’s greatest writers, from Honoré de Balzac and George Eliot to Virginia Woolf and Zadie Smith—with a few mischievous detours to visit Tolstoy along the way. In a scintillating tour d’horizon, Cohen lays bare the tricks, motivations, and techniques of the literary greats, revealing their obsessions and flaws and how we can learn from them along the way.