Summary
Erich Maria Remarque: Shadows in Paradise I - II
Erich Maria Remarque (June 22, 1898 – September 25, 1970) is the pseudonym of a German writer whose real name is Erich Paul Remark. Remarque became famous for a series of works describing the horrors of the war in which he himself was a participant. His most famous novel is Nothing New in the West (published in sequels in 1928 and as a book in early 1929), in which he describes the life of German soldiers fighting on the Western Front (French battlefield) during the First World War. An Oscar-winning film was made based on this film. This work brings him the enmity of the Nazis, who ban and burn many of his works. In 1933, the Nazis banned his works and confiscated them. In parallel with that, they start with propaganda that Remarque is actually a French Jew and that his real name is Kramer (which is what we get if we pronounce the last name Remark backwards). Even today, in certain biographies of this writer, this claim is made, with the already mentioned example as proof. More famous works: Nothing New in the West (Im Westen nichts Neues) – 1929 The Return (Der Weg zurück) – 1931 Three War Comrades (Drei Kameraden) – 1938 Love Your Neighbor (Liebe deinen Nächsten) – 1941 Arc de Triomphe – 1946 The Spark of Life (Der Funke Leben) – 1952 Time to Live and Time to Die (Zeit zu leben und Zeit zu sterben) – 1954 Black Obelisk (Der schwarze Obelisk) -1956 Heaven Knows No Favorites (Der Himmel kennt keine Günstlinge) – 1961 Night in Lisbon (Die Nacht von Lissabon) – 1963 Shadows in Paradise (Schatten im Paradies) – posthumously published 1971
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