Erich Maria Remarque

"Chernyj obelisk" (1956 g.) - znamenityj roman Remarka, vo mnogom avtobiografichnyj. Slozhnye gody posle Pervoj mirovoj vojny, provintsialnyj nemetskij gorodok, geroj rabotaet v firme po prodazhe nadgrobij... No deneg ne khvataet, v strane chudovischnaja infljatsija, i on podrabatyvaet igroj na organe v chasovne pri bolnitse. Svoju ljubov on vstrechaet imenno tam, v psikhiatricheskom otdelenii..."Chernyj obelisk" - s odnoj storony, roman o velikoj sile ljubvi, sposobnoj vylechit dazhe dushevnobolnogo, s drugoj storony, filosofskie razmyshlenija o Boge, religii, smysle zhizni, i nakonets, s tretej - jarkaja istoricheskaja kartina epokhi, gde vse zametnee zajavljaet o sebe priblizhajuschijsja fashizm.

Rannij roman Remarka, v kotorom on tolko naschupyvaet osnovnye temy, stavshie kljuchevymi v ego tvorchestve... Avtogonschiki. Muzhchiny, zhivuschie na adrenaline. Oni - kumiry svetskikh krasavits. Oni zarabatyvajut bolshie dengi i riskujut zhiznju. No v dejstvitelnosti shlemy "korolej avtogonok" skryvajut ustalye litsa klassicheskikh predstavitelej "poterjannogo pokolenija", tak i ne sumevshikh opomnitsja ot koshmara Pervoj mirovoj.

2014 är det 100 år sedan första världskriget startade. I romanen "På västfronten intet nytt" beskrivs första världskrigets fasor och vansinne utifrån en tysk 19-årig soldats synvinkel. Upplevelserna i skyttegravarna ger en kraftfullt realistisk bild från det första världskriget, som inleddes 1914. De unga och romantiska pojkarna förvandlades till hårdhudade och kallhamrade kämpar som lärde sig döda för att överleva.

Genudgivelse af klassikeren, der bygger på selvbiografiske oplevelser og blev Erich Maria Remarques gennembrud, handler om Første Verdenskrig, og den virker den dag i dag lige så enkel og overbevisende, som da den blev skrevet i 1929. Med forord af Klaus Rifbjerg.

From the beloved author of "All Quiet on the Western Front, Flotsam" is a terrifying portrait of Europe as the Nazi shadow falls over the continent. Political dissidents, Jews, medical students, petty criminals: Among the thousands of displaced persons traveling the unpaved roads of Europe, there are Steiner and Kern. Both have irritated officials for outstaying their two-week sojourn in Czechoslovakia. And so they must leave. Not that either has any place to go. Not in 1939. But when a man is led by a guard to the border of one country, he must try another. Until he is escorted from that one too. Living hand-to-mouth, selling shoelaces and safety pins for a few pennies, Steiner and Kern find that, remarkably, there are still pleasures to be had. Paris, for one; love, for another. For amid the heartless cruelty and cold-blooded laws of the Nazi state, there is still humanity and kindness. And there is incomparable joy in falling in love, surviving, and telling your story so it is never forgotten. "The world has a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. He is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank, a man who can bend language to his will. Whether he writes of men or of inanimate nature, his touch is sensitive, firm, and sure."--"The New York Times Book Review"

Ranee roman publikovalsja pod nazvaniem "Zhizn vzajmy" v sokraschennom zhurnalnom variante 1959 goda. V dannom izdanii publikuetsja okonchatelnyj knizhnyj variant 1961 goda. Etu zhizn geroi otvoevyvajut u smerti! Kogda terjat uzhe nechego, kogda odin stoit na kraju gibeli, tak i ne uznav zhizni, a drugomu ona stala nevynosima. I kak vsegda u Remarka, tolko ljubov i druzhba ostajutsja nezyblemymi. Tolko v nikh mozhno najti tochku opory... V 1977 godu po knige byl snjat film s legendarnym Al Pachino.

Mesto dejstvija - Parizh nakanune Vtoroj mirovoj vojny.Geroj - khirurg, spasajuschij chelovecheskie zhizni, bezhenets iz Germanii, bez dokumentov, skryvajuschijsja i ot frantsuzov, i ot natsistov.Geroinja - italjanskaja aktrisa, okruzhennaja poklonnikami, neotrazimaja i vspylchivaja, kak vse artisty.I vremja, kogda vljublennym dovelos vstretitsja, i gorod, pronizannyj oschuscheniem nadvigajuschejsja katastrofy, takzhe stanovjatsja gerojami etogo romana...Eto istorija ljubvi naperekor vsemu, ljubvi, pust i prichinjajuschej bol, no i darujuschej beskonechnuju radost.Perevodchik: Rudnitskij Mikhail Lvovich

The story is told by a young 'unknown soldier' in the trenches of Flanders during the First World War. Although there are vividly described incidents which remain in mind, there is no sense of adventure here, only the feeling of youth betrayed and a deceptively simple indictment of war - of any war - told for a whole generation of victims.