Playing Against Time

🔖 Jiri Fried wrote: I wanted primarily to depict a certain type of human being; I chose a chess player because chess- that is, the game of chess, as the content and axis of a whole life- allowed me to stress something that is within every individual who is isolated because of excessive specialisation. Everyone who is, in a manner of speaking, placed somewhere on the periphery of lifes struggle. I think that there are many jobs of this nature, and that their number is rapidly increasing. Nor does this apply exclusively to intellectuals, to inhabitants of isolated workrooms