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Carl Haffner’s Love of the Draw

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Haffner is a shy and fragile man, brought up in extreme poverty, from which his only escape is his exceptional gift for chess. His is a game shaped by the harsh experiences he has undergone. He has an obsessive fear of defeat, and his tactics and overall strategy are based on the sheer artistry of defence. But this confrontation with Lasker is not merely a clash between rook and knight; it is a collision between two men with vastly differing attitudes to life: the wealthy, worldly, self-confident champion on the one hand, the lonely, idealistic and penniless Haffner on the other.

Carl Haffner is modelled on the Austrian grandmaster Karl Schlechter, and in his brilliant first novel Thomas Glavinic brings to life both the events surrounding the ten-match world championship and the atmosphere of the cafés and chess clubs of Vienna and Berlin in the years before the First World War. With mature insight, he analyses the reasons for Haffner's view of the world, a world that is thrown into further confusion by the appearance of the fascinating and beautiful Anna.

Publish Date
Publisher
Harvill Press
Language
English
Pages
186

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Carl Haffner’s Love of the Draw
13 Oct. 2014, Harvill Press
Hardcover in English
Cover of: Láska Carla Haffnera k remízám
Láska Carla Haffnera k remízám
2013, Paseka
Paperback in Czech - 1. české vydání
Cover of: Carl Haffners Liebe zum Unentschieden
Carl Haffners Liebe zum Unentschieden
2011, dtv
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Ljubav prema remiju Carla Haffnera
2009, Edicije Božićević
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La sfida di Carl Haffner
2008, Beit Casa
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Carl Haffners Liebe zum Unentschieden
2006, dtv
Paperback in German - Überarbeitete Neuausgabe, 2. Auflage
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ドローへの愛
June 24, 2003, 河出書房新社
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Partie remise
March 1, 2001, Pauvert
Paperback in French
Cover of: Carl Haffners Liebe zum Unentschieden
Carl Haffners Liebe zum Unentschieden
2000, Goldmann
Paperback in German - Genehmigte Taschenbuchausg., 1. Aufl.
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Carl Haffners liefde voor remise
27 oktober 2000, Atlas
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Carl Haffner’s Love of the Draw
1999, Harvill Press
Paperback in English
Cover of: Carl Haffners Liebe zum Unentschiedenen
Carl Haffners Liebe zum Unentschiedenen: Roman
1998, Volk und Welt
Hardcover in German - 2. Aufl.

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Edition Notes

Published in
London, UK
Translation Of
Carl Haffners Liebe zum Unentschieden
Translated From
German

Classifications

Library of Congress
PT2667.L53

Contributors

Translator
John Brownjohn

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
186
Number of pages
186
Dimensions
21 x 13.5 x 1.4 centimeters
Weight
203 grams

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL36211358M
ISBN 10
1846559316
ISBN 13
9781846559310
OCLC/WorldCat
893632059

Work Description

Wien 1910, eine Partie Schach nimmt eine unvorhergesehene Wendung: ein kunstvolles gesellschaftliches Gemälde.

Im Winter des Jahres 1910 steht die Schachwelt Kopf: Der in Wien ausgetragene Kampf um die Weltmeisterschaft nimmt in der fünften Partie eine unvorhergesehene Wendung. Der als unschlagbar geltende Titelverteidiger Emanuel Lasker, berühmt auch als Dichter und Philosoph, ist durch einen Fehler, den sonst nur Anfänger machen, in Rückstand geraten.

Im Schlaglicht des Interesses steht nun plötzlich der Herausforderer Carl Haffner. Der bis dahin kaum bekannte Österreicher ist ein Defensivkünstler, ein Meister des Remis. Jetzt bietet sich ihm die Gelegenheit, Lasker die Krone zu entreißen – die zehnte und letzte Partie muss die Entscheidung bringen.

Erzählerisch wird diese Auseinandersetzung nicht auf den vierundsechzig Feldern des Schachbretts zelebriert, sondern, psychologisch glänzend gelöst, im Aufeinanderprallen der zwei so unterschiedlichen Charaktere. Dieser hoch gelobte Debüt-Roman von Thomas Glavinic ist ein kunstvolles, psychologisches, soziales und gesellschaftliches Gemälde aus dem Wien der k.u.k. Monarchie.

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