Zugzwang by Ronan Bennett book review - Not the ending I wanted
5Zugzwang by Ronan Bennett book review - Not the ending I wanted.
Very enjoyable book, the ending is just sad.
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Hello friends I am DragoNate and welcome to my first book review! Today I am reviewing Zugzwang by Ronan Bennett, a book set in 1914 where a psychoanalyst named Otto Spethman finds himself caught up in one giant conspiracy plot.
I really enjoyed reading Zugzwang. Every time I picked it up, the imagery was very powerful; I could see everything that happening, even details not specifically mentioned and everyone had their own voice even though all of it was in my own head.
The main theme of Zugzwang seems to be more about the relationship between the characters than much else. People aren't who you think they are; friends turn out to be enemies, enemies become friends. The major conspiracy plot throughout the book is never resolved nor does it even take place. In the end, Otto is stuck in Zugzwang regarding his own daughter and his lover, the daughter of a powerful man and after the exchange, you're left without any resolution to anything that happened. You have no clue what is happening or what will happen, you only know that Otto and his daughter are now together and go off to restart their lives elsewhere. Definitely not the ending I wanted.
Zugwang is a chess term that describes a being in a position where you are obliged to move, but no matter what you do, you only make your position worse and your opponent will, ultimately, win.
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Zugzwang Description
St Petersburg, 1914. Dr Otto Spethmann, a famous psychoanalyst, is implicated in a murder. But he is preoccupied with Avrom Rozental, the brilliant chess master who is due to play the most important competition of his life but is on the verge of a breakdown. With the city rife with speculation and alarm, Spethmann broods over his own chessboard, its pieces frozen mid-battle, and contemplates the forces - political, historical, sexual - that are holding him in their grasp.
About Ronan Bennett
Ronan Bennett was brought up in Belfast. He is the author of four novels, including the hugely acclaimed The Catastrophist (shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award) and Havoc, in Its Third Year (winner of the Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year and longlisted for both the Booker Prize and the IMPAC award). He has also written screenplays for film and television. Zugzwang was serialised weekly in the Observer in 2006. Ronan Bennett lives in London with his family.