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Mate : a novel in twenty games
Overview
MATE: a novel in twenty games deals with marriage as a chess game. What distinguishes MATE from other stories and novels about the life and death of a relationship is its radical correlation of the actions of a husband and wife to chess moves. The logic of the novel suggests: chess is war reduced to a game; marriage is chess; marriage is war. That is the tragedy-marriage, as a human institution and human desire, is innately tragic. In marriage, one or the other partner feel obliged to annihilate the other in a struggle for...what? This is the central question and riddle of MATE.
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- ISBN-13: 9781963908497
- ISBN-10: 196390849X
- Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil
- Publish Date: May 2025
- Dimensions: 8 x 5.25 x 0.41 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.42 pounds
- Page Count: 176
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