![]() ![]() Yet his work has continued to live on in the decades since his tragic death, including The Royal Game. Zweig was one of them the day after he sent the manuscript of The Royal Game off to his publishers, he and his wife took a fatal dose of sleeping pills. But for so many great writers, artists, and intellectuals of the Weimar period, exile was its own form of torture it was hard for them to keep living and working in a foreign, often unwelcoming place while knowing that they would likely never see their beloved homeland ever again - and if they did, it would be irrevocably changed by the horrors inflicted by the Nazis. Stefan Zweig’s final work, a novella titled The Royal Game, was written in 1941-1942 while the author was living in exile in Brazil, having fled his home country of Austria due to the rise of National Socialism and the insidious anti-Semitism that came with it. ![]()
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