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Возвращение / Время жить и время умирать.
556 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1993
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Erich Maria Remarque
211 books6,032 followersErich Maria Remarque was a German novelist best known for All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), a landmark anti-war novel based on his experiences in World War I. The book became an international bestseller, defining a new genre of veterans’ literature and inspiring multiple film adaptations. Its strong anti-war themes led to condemnation by the Nazi regime, which banned and burned his works.
Born Erich Paul Remark in 1898, he adopted the surname Remarque to honor his French ancestry. He served on the Western Front during World War I, where he was wounded, and later pursued various jobs, including teaching, editing, and technical writing. After the massive success of All Quiet on the Western Front, he wrote several other novels addressing war and exile, such as The Road Back, Three Comrades, and Arch of Triumph. His outspoken opposition to the Nazi regime forced him into exile in Switzerland and later the United States, where he became a naturalized citizen in 1947.
Remarque’s personal life included high-profile relationships with actresses Marlene Dietrich and Paulette Goddard, the latter of whom he married in 1958. In 1943, his youngest sister, Elfriede, was executed by the Nazis for anti-regime remarks, an event that deeply affected him. He spent his later years in Switzerland, where he continued writing. His final completed novel, The Night in Lisbon (1962), was another bestseller.
He died in 1970 at the age of 72, leaving behind a literary legacy that continues to shape discussions on war and its consequences.
AKA:
Эрих Мария Ремарк (Russian)
Born Erich Paul Remark in 1898, he adopted the surname Remarque to honor his French ancestry. He served on the Western Front during World War I, where he was wounded, and later pursued various jobs, including teaching, editing, and technical writing. After the massive success of All Quiet on the Western Front, he wrote several other novels addressing war and exile, such as The Road Back, Three Comrades, and Arch of Triumph. His outspoken opposition to the Nazi regime forced him into exile in Switzerland and later the United States, where he became a naturalized citizen in 1947.
Remarque’s personal life included high-profile relationships with actresses Marlene Dietrich and Paulette Goddard, the latter of whom he married in 1958. In 1943, his youngest sister, Elfriede, was executed by the Nazis for anti-regime remarks, an event that deeply affected him. He spent his later years in Switzerland, where he continued writing. His final completed novel, The Night in Lisbon (1962), was another bestseller.
He died in 1970 at the age of 72, leaving behind a literary legacy that continues to shape discussions on war and its consequences.
AKA:
Эрих Мария Ремарк (Russian)
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September 15, 2018
Remarque is like documentalist of the wwI and wwII. Novel is a sad and real as much as it can be. War tonr by war in 1940s a german soldier returns to his home town ruined by bombs and dispair and finds love. Goes back to war not because he wants to, but because thats the way it is. Some times life is just the break and death just to end all the unbearable pain of cruelty of war and abys. In the books of lost generation u find simple things to be sourse of happiness, while the horors of war just every day life. Mankind never learns the lesson and all next generations pay the prices of their parents horrible mistakes. Never ending suffer of war and cruelty power driven small men. Privileges and tyrany seekers are everywhere on the earth, but its we ho hand them power and poison Their deeds with our helpless decisions. Every generation hopes that wars will be a part of horrible past, but we always end up in new twisted conflicts without even knowing it ahead.
February 22, 2020
Хорошая книга. Полезно для осознания ужасов войны и судьб людей. Но очень мрачная и пессимистичная
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