18 x 11.5 cm. 116 pages. Original half-cloth binding with gold-embossed title. - German first edition. In 1941, Stefan Zweig moved from New York to Petropolis, a Brazilian mountain town. There, Ernst Feder was his neighbor and chess partner. During this time, he wrote "Schachnovelle," which would become Zweig's last book. In February 1942, Zweig, along with his wife Lotte, took his own life. On the eve of his carefully planned death, Feder was the last guest and played a game of chess with Zweig. A few hours before his death, Zweig sent the manuscript of "Schachnovelle" to his translator and friend Alfredo Cahn. "Schachnovelle" is Stefan Zweig's best-known and final work and is part of the canon of world literature. The work was first published in Europe in 1943 by Gottfried Bermann Fischer's exile publishing house in Stockholm. Very good condition.