New savored within hours which made me think! You can torture a person without touching, without starving, without threatening his family insulate it. The details in the book. The writing is fluid, the original background (the little known world of chess), a little suspense keeps us in suspense and drama "awake" in the face of totalitarianism of our time. A detail for the road: the last book of Zweig who commits suicide by letting these words: "May my friends still see the dawn after the long night, I can not wait, I go before them."