The Pawn’s Gambit: On Adapting Stefan Zweig’s “Chess Story”
Annie Pfeiffer discusses the translation and adaptation by Philipp Stölzl of Stefan Zweig’s “Chess Story.”
Annie Pfeifer is an assistant professor in the Department of Germanic Languages at Columbia University. Her research and teaching interests focus on 19th- and 20th-century German literature, aesthetics, and culture. Her first monograph, To the Collector Belong the Spoils: Modernism and the Art of Appropriation, was published by Cornell University Press in February 2023.
Annie Pfeiffer discusses the translation and adaptation by Philipp Stölzl of Stefan Zweig’s “Chess Story.”