Eaten Alive
Ruth Franklin: Stefan Zweig, 3 April 2003
The Royal Game
by Stefan Zweig, translated by B.W. Huebsch.
Pushkin, 79 pp., £8, April 2001,1 901285 11 1 Show More
by Stefan Zweig, translated by B.W. Huebsch.
Pushkin, 79 pp., £8, April 2001,
“... in engaging with Nazism. The ‘peasant champion’ comes across nearly as grossly in B.W. Huebsch’s tidy translation (Huebsch was a friend of Zweig’s and his first American publisher) as in the original. In contrast to the genteel narrator’s, Czentovic’s language is coarse and uncouth; early on he is ... ”
