Chess as a spiritual exercise or existential salvation

Abstract

The project aims to follow how chess- one of the most beautiful sports invented by human- becomes a literary motif between three illustrative books, written by three artists  from different eras and countries: Mihail Sadoveanu, Herta Müller and Walter Tevis.

Mihail Sadoveanu, considered the third great storyteller of Romanian literature, presents in "Aventurile șahului" how this game gives us solutions to the great existential problems.

Nobel laureate, Herta Müller, proposes a symbolic interpretation of the chess pieces in "Regele se-nclină și ucide".

Walter Tevis wins his readers with a mythic book about salvation through the passion for chess, namely "The Queen's Gambit".