List of fiction literature with main chess content
This list shows works of fiction that deal with the game of chess .
Chronological list by year of first edition
- 1803 - Wilhelm Heinse : Anastasia and the game of chess. Verlag Volckmar, Leipzig 1838 (Anastasia-Matt comes from this letter novel).
- 1872 - Lewis Carroll : Alice behind the mirrors ("Through the looking glass"). Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-458-31797-X .
- 1913 (approx.) - Gustav Meyrink : Mirror Images. (Novella)
- 1930 - Vladimir Nabokov : Lushin's defense. Novel. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1999, ISBN 3-499-22550-6 .
- 1938 - Samuel Beckett : Murphy . Novel. ISBN 3-499-13525-6 (parody of the chess game)
- 1942 - Stefan Zweig : Chess Novella . Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-596-21522-6 .
- 1949 - William Faulkner : The jumper attacks. Crime stories ("Knight's gambit"). Diogenes Verlag, Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-257-20152-9 .
- 1951 - Kurt Vonnegut : All the King's Horses. In: Ders .: Go back to your dear wife and your dear son. Stories (“Welcome to the Monkey house”). Goldmann, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-442-09443-7 .
- 1963 - Icchokas Meras : Draw for seconds. Novel. Aufbau-Taschenbuchverlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-7466-1752-9 .
- 1965 - John Brunner : The city's squares. SF novel ("The Squares of the City"). Heyne, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-453-30608-2 (the plot of the book is based on a real game of chess).
- 1973 - Barry N. Malzberg : Tactics of Conquest. Novel. ("Tactics of Conquest"). Heyne, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-453-08586-8 .
- 1979 - Karl Andreas Edlinger : Checkmate in seven moves - Chess stories from twelve countries. Neff, Vienna 1979, ISBN 978-3-7014-0162-8 .
- 1983 - Fernando Arrabal : high towers are hit by lightning. Novel. ("La torre herida por el rayo"). Dtv, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-423-10998-X .
- 1988 - Katherine Neville: The Montglane Game. The secret of the eight. Roman ("The Eight"). Diana-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-453-35427-2 .
- 1990 - Arturo Pérez-Reverte : The secret of the black lady (“Le table de Flande”). Econ-Ullstein-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-548-60197-9 .
- 1993 - Paolo Maurensig : The Lüneburg variant. Novel. ("La variant di Lüneburg"). Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 978-3-518-39470-0 .
- 1995 - Tim Krabbé : Master Jacobson. (Narrative)
- 1998 - Thomas Glavinic : Carl Haffner's love for a tie. Novel. Dtv, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-423-13425-5 .
- 1999 - Manfred Korth : Gardez! A novel about a chess obsessed. Frieling, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-8280-0914-X .
- 2001 - Andrew Soltis : Los Voraces 2019
- 2005 - Robert Löhr : The chess machine. Novel about the most brilliant fraud of the 18th century. Piper, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-492-26248-4 .
- 2006 - Bertina Henrichs : The Chess Player (“La joueuse d'échecs”). Diana-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-453-35172-1 .
- 2007 - Ronan Bennett : Zugzwang. Roman ("Zugzwang"). Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-8270-0681-3 .
- 2008 - Fabio Stassi : The last game (“La rivincita di Capablanca”). Kein & Aber, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-0369-5535-3 .
- 2009 - Yōko Ogawa : 猫 を 抱 い て 象 と 泳 ぐ . Bungeishunju, Tokyo 2009. Published in German as Swimming with Elephants . Structure, Berlin 2014. ISBN 978-3-7466-3080-9 .
- 2011 - Gerhard Josten : Alekhin's Gambit. Verlag Helmut Ladwig, Rodenbach 2011, ISBN 978-3-941210-34-9 .
- 2011 - Guillermo Martìnez : Roderer's opening. Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-596182-63-3 .
- 2013 - Matthew Reilly : The tournament. Orion Books, London 2013, ISBN 978-1-4091-3422-0 (English).
- 2014 - Arnaldur Indriðason : Einvígids. (German: Duell. ) Verlagsgruppe Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2014, ISBN 978-3-8387-4497-1 . (In the present thriller, chess is only to a limited extent the main content.)
- 2014 - Freerk Bulthaupt: openings - the traits of chess master Greco , LIT Verlag, Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-8978-1230-7 . About the chess master Gioachino Greco (approx. 1600–1634).
- 2017 - Ariel Magnus : El que mueve las piezas (German: The Chess Players of Buenos Aires . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-462-05005-9 ) (novel about the 1939 Chess Olympiad )
Secondary literature
- Siegfried Schönle: The game of chess in the writings of Jean Paul (1763-1825) , Meissenburg, 2000 (2nd edition)
- Nikolaos Karatsioras: The hard and the amorphous. The game of chess as a construction and imagination model of literary texts , Frank and Timme, Berlin 2011
Web links
- List of chess novels - Schachverein Leonberg 1978 e. V.
- Chess in literature (extensive list with descriptions) - Pulheimer SC
- Chess in literature (with reviews) - Schachfreunde Hannover