2023-09-22 16:48:42
EXCLUSIVE LETTER TO SUBSCRIBERS – The talented author of Fuir, winner of the 2005 Medici Prize, has just released a unique biography, written in 64 chapters where he looks back on his passions for literature and chess.
Bobby Fischer said that “chess is life“. The writer Jean-Philippe Toussaint could in turn proclaim that “life is a game of chess”. He has just written a biography, in his own delicate way, The Chessboard which, like the journey of a rider in Euler’s problem, retraces the thread of his existence in 64 boxes. This man has two unstoppable arrows in his quiver: he is both a novelist and a chess player. In this he resembles Nabokov. But unlike the latter, he composes his chess problems from the thoughts that have progressed in fits and starts since his childhood. from box to box. And this large part of his life is full of twists and turns. A good Samaritan, Toussaint even gave the compass of this biography which jumps obliquely like a chess steed: “I wanted my book to deal more with openings than with endings. I wanted this book to tell me, invent me, recreate me, establish me and extend me».
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