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First published January 1, 1936
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Erich Maria Remarque
215books5,766followersErich 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.
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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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April 9, 2023
Youth is an age of magic: you’re full of pep, zest, enthusiasm, hopes, friendship� love.
Three Comrades comprises a little bit of sentimentality, a little bit of romance and a whole lot of despair � it is an authentic carrier of the zeitgeist of the Roaring Twenties�
You try to survive and you fight for your love and happiness. But time doen’t stand sill and it doesn’t wait�
When you’re young there is eternity lying before you� Then, suddenly, your eternity is taken away.
She began to speak, but soon I no longer heard what she was saying. I heard only her voice, and as I sat there on the table in the dark hall, between the boar's head and the kitchen with the haricot beans, a door seemed to open and a wave of warmth and light came in, soothing and bright, full of dreams and desire and youth. I propped my feet against the table, I rested my head in my hand, I looked at the boar's head and the repulsive kitchen door, but I could not help myself � summer was all at once there; wind, sunset over the fields of corn, and the green light of the woodland path.
Three Comrades comprises a little bit of sentimentality, a little bit of romance and a whole lot of despair � it is an authentic carrier of the zeitgeist of the Roaring Twenties�
Only the unhappy man appreciates happiness. The happy man is a mannequin for the life-feeling. He displays it merely; he doesn't possess it. Light doesn't shine in the light; it shines in the dark.
You try to survive and you fight for your love and happiness. But time doen’t stand sill and it doesn’t wait�
It was a strange feeling. Time seemed to have ceased to flow � it was no longer a river that came from the darkness and passed out into darkness again � it was a lake in which life was noiselessly mirrored.
When you’re young there is eternity lying before you� Then, suddenly, your eternity is taken away.
October 7, 2012
Краткое содержание любой книги Ремарка (и похоже Хэмингуэя тоже):
Я проснулся и выпил немного рому. Рана жутко болела, поэтому я выписался из больницы и погулял по городу. Денег не было, поэтому я купил пальто и пошел в кафе "Интернациональ". Там я поел и выпил рому. Погода в горах была паршивая, так что я выпил рому и вспомнил как на войне снаряд убил Петруцци и Лебовского. "Чёртова война!" -- подумал я и сел на поезд, прихватив в дорогу бутылочку рому. Приехав, я снял комнату в отеле. "Чёрт, здесь нет рома!" -- сказал я себе, но вдруг за мной заехали мои друзья с бутылочкой рому. Мы отправились в старый добрый бар к Альфонсу. Альфонс прослезился и угостил ромом из своих запасов, а я подарил всем дамам цветов, после чего здорово напился рому. Я сел за руль и поехал к Кэтрин. У нее как раз были тяжелые роды, и она очень страдала. -- Милая, милая Кэтрин! -- сказал я и налил ей и себе рому. В стекла колотил дождь, и она умерла. Пришли санитарки, но я их выгнал и долго сидел у кровати. Утром я пошёл домой.
Я проснулся и выпил немного рому. Рана жутко болела, поэтому я выписался из больницы и погулял по городу. Денег не было, поэтому я купил пальто и пошел в кафе "Интернациональ". Там я поел и выпил рому. Погода в горах была паршивая, так что я выпил рому и вспомнил как на войне снаряд убил Петруцци и Лебовского. "Чёртова война!" -- подумал я и сел на поезд, прихватив в дорогу бутылочку рому. Приехав, я снял комнату в отеле. "Чёрт, здесь нет рома!" -- сказал я себе, но вдруг за мной заехали мои друзья с бутылочкой рому. Мы отправились в старый добрый бар к Альфонсу. Альфонс прослезился и угостил ромом из своих запасов, а я подарил всем дамам цветов, после чего здорово напился рому. Я сел за руль и поехал к Кэтрин. У нее как раз были тяжелые роды, и она очень страдала. -- Милая, милая Кэтрин! -- сказал я и налил ей и себе рому. В стекла колотил дождь, и она умерла. Пришли санитарки, но я их выгнал и долго сидел у кровати. Утром я пошёл домой.
October 29, 2022
In the US Erich Maria Remarque seems best known because of . But for me, having grown up in post-Soviet Ukraine, it was always that was THE Remarque.
I loved this story dearly as a young teen. The greater historical context - the Weimar Republic, the rise of the Nazism, the interwar economic bleakness in Germany - all that escaped my young self in lieu of Robert and Pat’s love and the relationship between Robert and his friends (and the even deeper relationship between Robert and his rum. Seriously, a doctor even comments that his liver is too firm. The guy is pretty much in cirrhosis territory, surely). The rest was the set decoration back then. And now that’s what I actually ended up paying much more attention to rather than the melodrama in the foreground.
Remarque published this in 1936 and set it in 1928, long after it was obvious that what was happening in Germany at that time was bad news, but before even the slightest pretense at civility and normalcy was abandoned and nobody bothered to hide the real face of the horror from the others. It’s the book written *in the middle* of awful history happening, and knowing that makes me actually respect Remarque’s clarity more, with no benefit of hindsight and yet still seeing it. (It’s like writing a book set in modern-day Russia knowing how warped everything is but not yet knowing exactly when and how the overwhelming madness is going to end.)
It’s a story of a Lost Generation recovering after World War I, set on the background of economic disaster. The days of inflation by the minute may be over, but the days of crippling economic insecurity, widespread unemployment and constant fears of those who are clinging to any job of losing it and facing absolute destitution � all that gives a really good idea of how a self-important little man with big promises and convenient scapegoats all lined up was able to capture the nation’s hearts. No wonder disillusionment and alcoholism and fast cars for a generation that lost their innocence on WW2 battlefields seem like a reasonable solution in a life with few hopes.
The love story this time for me was secondary as I cared more about Robby’s connections with his friends and acquaintances and the alcohol and care much more than about his tragic love story with Pat. It’s the other sparks of human connection that shone brightly for me and made me care this time. It’s friendship and shared miseries and support that give hope in this otherwise bleak time.
It’s a simply told story, straightforward, without that ornamentality that too often permeates literary fiction. It is a slice of life story, but meaningful and although melancholic, not woe-is-me misery porn. I read it in Ukrainian translation this time (I don’t read German, and English translation to me seemed a bit stilted when I read it years ago), and to those who can read Ukrainian I highly recommend it; it felt alive and “native� rather than a translated piece.
4 stars.
—ĔĔĔĔ�
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I loved this story dearly as a young teen. The greater historical context - the Weimar Republic, the rise of the Nazism, the interwar economic bleakness in Germany - all that escaped my young self in lieu of Robert and Pat’s love and the relationship between Robert and his friends (and the even deeper relationship between Robert and his rum. Seriously, a doctor even comments that his liver is too firm. The guy is pretty much in cirrhosis territory, surely). The rest was the set decoration back then. And now that’s what I actually ended up paying much more attention to rather than the melodrama in the foreground.
Remarque published this in 1936 and set it in 1928, long after it was obvious that what was happening in Germany at that time was bad news, but before even the slightest pretense at civility and normalcy was abandoned and nobody bothered to hide the real face of the horror from the others. It’s the book written *in the middle* of awful history happening, and knowing that makes me actually respect Remarque’s clarity more, with no benefit of hindsight and yet still seeing it. (It’s like writing a book set in modern-day Russia knowing how warped everything is but not yet knowing exactly when and how the overwhelming madness is going to end.)
“In the interval more people had arrived, and it was now obvious that they did not really belong here. With pale faces and threadbare clothes, they wandered, hands behind their backs, rather diffidently through the rooms, with eyes that were seeing something far other than the Renaissance pictures and the still, marble antique figures. Many were sitting on the red upholstered seats that were placed around. They sat wearily there, as if prepared to stand up at once, should anyone come to move them on. You could see in their attitudes that upholstered seats were something which it was quite incredible it should cost nothing to sit on. They were used to receiving nothing for nothing. It was very quiet in all the rooms, and despite all the visitors one hardly heard a word; and yet it seemed to me as if I were looking on at an enormous struggle—the soundless struggle of men who were stricken down, but did not mean to give in yet. They had been thrown out from the fields of their work, their striving, their callings; now they had come into the quiet rooms of Art, in order not to fall into paralysis and despair. They were thinking of bread, always and only of bread and occupation; but they came here to escape from their thoughts for a few hours—and amongst the clean-cut Roman heads and the imperishable grace of white, Greek female figures they wandered around with the dragging gait, the bowed shoulders of men who have no purpose—a shocking contrast, a cheerless picture of what humanity had been able, and unable, to achieve in a thousand years—the summit of eternal works of art, but not even bread enough for each of their brothers.�
It’s a story of a Lost Generation recovering after World War I, set on the background of economic disaster. The days of inflation by the minute may be over, but the days of crippling economic insecurity, widespread unemployment and constant fears of those who are clinging to any job of losing it and facing absolute destitution � all that gives a really good idea of how a self-important little man with big promises and convenient scapegoats all lined up was able to capture the nation’s hearts. No wonder disillusionment and alcoholism and fast cars for a generation that lost their innocence on WW2 battlefields seem like a reasonable solution in a life with few hopes.
The love story this time for me was secondary as I cared more about Robby’s connections with his friends and acquaintances and the alcohol and care much more than about his tragic love story with Pat. It’s the other sparks of human connection that shone brightly for me and made me care this time. It’s friendship and shared miseries and support that give hope in this otherwise bleak time.
It’s a simply told story, straightforward, without that ornamentality that too often permeates literary fiction. It is a slice of life story, but meaningful and although melancholic, not woe-is-me misery porn. I read it in Ukrainian translation this time (I don’t read German, and English translation to me seemed a bit stilted when I read it years ago), and to those who can read Ukrainian I highly recommend it; it felt alive and “native� rather than a translated piece.
4 stars.
—ĔĔĔĔ�
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April 8, 2023
The "Great War" is over; it leaves the German population in poverty and a relentless search for work to earn a few cents.
The Weimar Republic is living its last hours; the birth of the 3rd Reich is pointing its nose with its share of violence.
They are three comrades of war who try to get out of it. Around them revolves a world of cafeterias, mechanics, prostitutes, and couples on the verge of rupture trying to resist getting stuck.
And then, one of the three meets Pat and falls madly in love with him, and all these little people are attached to this fragile little "lady."
That's a remarkable love story in a troubled time.
I was going to forget Karl, the character in the book—a work to discover.
The Weimar Republic is living its last hours; the birth of the 3rd Reich is pointing its nose with its share of violence.
They are three comrades of war who try to get out of it. Around them revolves a world of cafeterias, mechanics, prostitutes, and couples on the verge of rupture trying to resist getting stuck.
And then, one of the three meets Pat and falls madly in love with him, and all these little people are attached to this fragile little "lady."
That's a remarkable love story in a troubled time.
I was going to forget Karl, the character in the book—a work to discover.
October 17, 2020
Drei Kameraden = Three Comrades: A Novel of Germany Between the Wars, Erich Maria Remarque
A love story centered around the lives of three young German soldiers in the years following World War I. Their close friendship is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman who is dying of tuberculosis.
Three Comrades is a novel first published in 1936 by the German author Erich Maria Remarque.
It is written in first person by the main character Robert Lohkamp, whose somewhat disillusioned outlook on life is due to his horrifying experiences in the trenches of the First World War's French-German front.
He shares these experiences with Otto Köster and Gottfried Lenz, his two comrades with whom he runs an auto-repair shop in late 1920s Berlin (probably). The city, which is never referred to by name (however, it is likely Berlin), is crowded by a growing number of jobless and marked by increasing violence between left and right.
The novel starts out in the seedy milieu of bars where prostitutes mingle with the hopeless flotsam that the war left behind.
While Robert and his friends manage to make a living dealing cars and driving an old taxi, economic survival in the city is getting harder by the day.
It is in this setting that Robert meets Patrice Hollmann, a mysterious beautiful young woman with an upper-middle-class background.
Their love affair intensifies as he introduces her to his life of bars and races and Robert's nihilistic attitude slowly begins to change as he realizes how much he needs Pat. ...
تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز بیست و ششم ماه ژوئن سال 2015میلادی
عنوان: سه رفیق؛ نویسنده: اریش ماریا رمارک؛ موضوع: داستانهای نویسندگان آلمانی - سده 20م
سومین� رمان از «اریش ماریا رمارک» نویسنده ی آلمانی است، نخست عنوانش «پات» بود، و سپس «سه رفیق» نام گرفت، نگارشش چهار سال به درازا کشید؛ عنوان رمان، با اینکه «سه رفیق» است، اما آنها «رابرت لخامپم»، «اتو کستر»، «گوتفرید لنز» و «پاتریس هولمن»، چهار تن هستند، که در آغاز رمان حضور دارند، و هر یک بخشی از داستانرا شکل میدهند؛ افراد دیگری نیز بوده اند، که به طور رسمی از «رفقا» نبودند، اما میتوانستند باشند
تاریخ بهنگام رسانی 25/07/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی
A love story centered around the lives of three young German soldiers in the years following World War I. Their close friendship is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman who is dying of tuberculosis.
Three Comrades is a novel first published in 1936 by the German author Erich Maria Remarque.
It is written in first person by the main character Robert Lohkamp, whose somewhat disillusioned outlook on life is due to his horrifying experiences in the trenches of the First World War's French-German front.
He shares these experiences with Otto Köster and Gottfried Lenz, his two comrades with whom he runs an auto-repair shop in late 1920s Berlin (probably). The city, which is never referred to by name (however, it is likely Berlin), is crowded by a growing number of jobless and marked by increasing violence between left and right.
The novel starts out in the seedy milieu of bars where prostitutes mingle with the hopeless flotsam that the war left behind.
While Robert and his friends manage to make a living dealing cars and driving an old taxi, economic survival in the city is getting harder by the day.
It is in this setting that Robert meets Patrice Hollmann, a mysterious beautiful young woman with an upper-middle-class background.
Their love affair intensifies as he introduces her to his life of bars and races and Robert's nihilistic attitude slowly begins to change as he realizes how much he needs Pat. ...
تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز بیست و ششم ماه ژوئن سال 2015میلادی
عنوان: سه رفیق؛ نویسنده: اریش ماریا رمارک؛ موضوع: داستانهای نویسندگان آلمانی - سده 20م
سومین� رمان از «اریش ماریا رمارک» نویسنده ی آلمانی است، نخست عنوانش «پات» بود، و سپس «سه رفیق» نام گرفت، نگارشش چهار سال به درازا کشید؛ عنوان رمان، با اینکه «سه رفیق» است، اما آنها «رابرت لخامپم»، «اتو کستر»، «گوتفرید لنز» و «پاتریس هولمن»، چهار تن هستند، که در آغاز رمان حضور دارند، و هر یک بخشی از داستانرا شکل میدهند؛ افراد دیگری نیز بوده اند، که به طور رسمی از «رفقا» نبودند، اما میتوانستند باشند
تاریخ بهنگام رسانی 25/07/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی
February 6, 2025
Poignant and precise story of the lost generation.
The story revolves around three friends who fought together during war that made their relationship quite special. That nostalgic closeness is touching, but I was more impressed by how the author depicts Germany between wars - falling economy that leads to unemployment, desperation, frustration and rising of far-right movements. The sense of impending doom is tangible and terrifying.
Especially good were the scenes about political meeting: people are indifferent to facts and statistics but ecstatic by empty slogans and loud confidence. The nazis are coming and it won't be no happy end for neither three comrades nor their country.
The story revolves around three friends who fought together during war that made their relationship quite special. That nostalgic closeness is touching, but I was more impressed by how the author depicts Germany between wars - falling economy that leads to unemployment, desperation, frustration and rising of far-right movements. The sense of impending doom is tangible and terrifying.
Especially good were the scenes about political meeting: people are indifferent to facts and statistics but ecstatic by empty slogans and loud confidence. The nazis are coming and it won't be no happy end for neither three comrades nor their country.
May 25, 2023
You are well off, you are alone, Hasse had said. All very well-the man who is alone cannot be forsaken. But sometimes, at night, the whole artificial structure collapses, life turns into a sobbing insistent melody; out of the senseless grinding of the everlasting barrel organ, rises up a whirlwind of wild desires, cravings, melancholy, hope, without direction seeking an object. Ach, this pitiful need for a little bit of warmth- couldn't it be two hands then and a face bowed near? Or was that too only deception, surrender, and fight? Was there nothing then, but to be alone?
Reading some books can be mere occurrences in our life. But occasionally comes a book reading which becomes an event, which emotionally stir us to certain depths of our soul. Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front was one such book, and now, Three Comrades is another.
Stirring. Compelling. Poignant. Heart-wrenching. Profound.
This was a beautiful novel. This is a narration of events of his life, by Robert (Bob /Robby) Lohkamp a young WWI veteran, of age thirty, trying to make sense of life in the post Great War era.
In a revolting way, life had shrunk to a miserable battle for bare existence.
They had been thrown out from the fields of their work, their striving, their callings; now they had come into the quiet rooms of Art, in order not to fall into paralysis and despair. They were thinking of bread, always and only of bread and occupation; but they came here to escape from their thoughts for a few hours-and amongst the clean-cut Roman heads and the imperishable grace of white, Greek female figures they wandered around with the dragging gait, the bowed shoulders of men who have no purpose- a shocking contrast, a cheerless picture of what humanity had been able, and unable, to achieve in a thousand years- the summit of eternal works of art, but not even bread enough for each of their brothers.
This is a story of his friendship with a wise and quiet older brother figure Otto Köster, the last of the romantics and loquacious Gottfried Lenz, and their sturdy and loyal car Karl!
This is a story of true unconditional love of Robby with Patricia Hollmann.
The walls of the bar receded and suddenly it was no longer the bar- it was a little corner of the world, a haven of refuge, a dugout around which the eternal! battle of chaos was raging and in which we two sat sheltering, mysteriously drifted to one another through the twilight of time.
I heard myself speaking, but it was as if it were no longer myself, as if now some other person were talking, someone I should like to have been. The words were not true any more, they took on other meanings, pressed on into other, more brightly coloured ones than were to be found in the little happenings of my lite. I knew they were not true too, that they had turned to fancy and lies; but I did not care- the truth was cheerless and drab, and only the sense and the glamour of the dream was life.
In the tough times following the Great War, what little solace people could find was in comradeship and company of their loyal friends. This crew has another set of steadfast comrades, such as, Jupp, Alfons, and Ferdinand, among others.
But mainly it was a love-story and a very touching one at that.
This novel left me feeling a mélange of emotions. The second half of the novel gave quite a clear indication of what was coming, plot-wise, yet when I read the words ‘THE END� I had to sit still to absorb what had just happened. The writing was just marvelous. I underlined it so extensively.
Behind one door a child was crying, crying softly and plaintively in the dark. "He's right too," said Gottfried. "He's crying beforehand."
It’s one of the best books I have read this year.
Reading some books can be mere occurrences in our life. But occasionally comes a book reading which becomes an event, which emotionally stir us to certain depths of our soul. Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front was one such book, and now, Three Comrades is another.
Stirring. Compelling. Poignant. Heart-wrenching. Profound.
This was a beautiful novel. This is a narration of events of his life, by Robert (Bob /Robby) Lohkamp a young WWI veteran, of age thirty, trying to make sense of life in the post Great War era.
In a revolting way, life had shrunk to a miserable battle for bare existence.
They had been thrown out from the fields of their work, their striving, their callings; now they had come into the quiet rooms of Art, in order not to fall into paralysis and despair. They were thinking of bread, always and only of bread and occupation; but they came here to escape from their thoughts for a few hours-and amongst the clean-cut Roman heads and the imperishable grace of white, Greek female figures they wandered around with the dragging gait, the bowed shoulders of men who have no purpose- a shocking contrast, a cheerless picture of what humanity had been able, and unable, to achieve in a thousand years- the summit of eternal works of art, but not even bread enough for each of their brothers.
This is a story of his friendship with a wise and quiet older brother figure Otto Köster, the last of the romantics and loquacious Gottfried Lenz, and their sturdy and loyal car Karl!
This is a story of true unconditional love of Robby with Patricia Hollmann.
The walls of the bar receded and suddenly it was no longer the bar- it was a little corner of the world, a haven of refuge, a dugout around which the eternal! battle of chaos was raging and in which we two sat sheltering, mysteriously drifted to one another through the twilight of time.
I heard myself speaking, but it was as if it were no longer myself, as if now some other person were talking, someone I should like to have been. The words were not true any more, they took on other meanings, pressed on into other, more brightly coloured ones than were to be found in the little happenings of my lite. I knew they were not true too, that they had turned to fancy and lies; but I did not care- the truth was cheerless and drab, and only the sense and the glamour of the dream was life.
In the tough times following the Great War, what little solace people could find was in comradeship and company of their loyal friends. This crew has another set of steadfast comrades, such as, Jupp, Alfons, and Ferdinand, among others.
But mainly it was a love-story and a very touching one at that.
This novel left me feeling a mélange of emotions. The second half of the novel gave quite a clear indication of what was coming, plot-wise, yet when I read the words ‘THE END� I had to sit still to absorb what had just happened. The writing was just marvelous. I underlined it so extensively.
Behind one door a child was crying, crying softly and plaintively in the dark. "He's right too," said Gottfried. "He's crying beforehand."
It’s one of the best books I have read this year.
December 8, 2024
Понякога героизмът е просто да продължаваш да дишаш и живееш напук на лудостта в света. Да ловиш мъничките късчета живот, които след секунда ще са се стопили без следа - подобно на разцъфнала за една нощ пролетна слива до бензинова помпа в малка автоработилничка. Да се действаш, сякаш надеждата, любовта, приятелството, красотата, достойнството, истината съществуват и сякаш никой не може да ти отнеме избора кой и какъв да си. Сякаш животът има смисъл, а ежедневието - цел. Докато наоколо се вихрят страх, примирение, бюргерско самодоволство и надигат глава бъдещите спасители на чистата раса и на славното минало.
В Германия на 20-те, след като едно цяло поколение е безцелно изтребено по фронтовете на първата световна война, а оцелелите са чужденци в собствения си живот, всеки ден, в който те са далеч от лудостта, е подвиг. А наоколо препуска хиперинфлацията и усещането за бедствие и безнадеждност е повсеместно.
На този фон ветераните Роби, Готфрид и Ото са закрепили своя мъничък сал от приятелство, алкохолни пари, любов към несломимата машинна мощ на автомобилите, стоицизъм и отказ да удавят последното човешко у себе си в бесните вълни. Дори успяват да вземат на борда още неколцина пътници, сред които и красивата Пат.
Да се чете Ремарк е непоносимо истинско. Защото всъщност това не е роман, а просто вик, запечатан на хартия както кехлибарът запечатва праисторическото насекомо. И трябва периодично да поднася на слънце - но не като дрънкулка на украшение. А като памет и предупреждение. Ремарк е задължителен за всички патриотични войнолюбци. Но те, разбира се, не биха го чели. Гьобелс правилно се е ориентирал навремето спрямо Ремарк, определяйки го специално като непатриот и пораженец. Какъв по-голям комплимент от дебрите на историята?
—ĔĔĔĔ�
П.П. За любопитните - ето обосновката за изгарянето на книги в Германия на “неправилни� германски автори - феновете на Шкварек и Копейкин бързо ще познаят изразите на Гьобелс от 1933 г. - “всенароден поход срещу дързостта и предизвикателството, упадъка и моралната разруха, булевардната литература, класовата борба и материализма�. И още документирани реплики и речи от 10 май 1933 г., когато по заповед на Гьобелс се горят книги: �Срещу упадъка и моралната деградация! За дисциплина и добри нрави в семейството и държавата! Предавам на огъня трудовете на Хайнрих Ман, Ернст Глезер и Ерих Кестнер", “Предавам на огъня писанията на Ерих Мария Ремарк!�
—ĔĔĔĔ�
▶️ Цитати:
🌺 “Мож� би човек толкова е привикнал да върви по един утъпкан път, че дори и малкото свобода го смущава.�
🌺“истинат� бе безутешна и увехнала и само чувствата и отблясъкът на мечтите бяха живот…�
🌺�Странно! � каза Ленц след известно време. Защо се вдигат паметници на какви ли не хора, а няма ни един на луната или на някое цъфтящо дърво?…�
🌺“Човекъ� е лош, но обича доброто, ако го върши друг.�
🌺“� усилни времена наивността е най-скъпоценно благо, вълшебна мантия, която пази от бедите, към които свръхмъдрият тича като хипнотизиран.�
🌺“Животъ� е пъстър, но не съвършен.�
🌺“Д� се бори, да се бори � това е единственото, което в края на краищата човек трябва да прави, за да не търпи все пак поражение! Да се бори за малкото, което обича.�
🌺“� течение на живота човек се изнервя.�
🌺“Н� сте ли забелязали, че живеем във време на саморазкъсване? Че много от това, което човек би могъл да направи, въпреки всичко не прави, без да знае защо.�
🌺“Чове� не може да живее за любовта, за друг човек обаче може.�
🌺“Никог� не се извинявай, бебо. Никога не говори за това. Изпрати й цветя. Без писмо. Само цветя. Те покриват всичко. Дори гробове.�
🌺“Трудно е да се намерят слова, когато човек наистина има какво да каже.�
🌺“Ни� правим достатъчно глупости и с нашите полуистини. С целите истини изобщо не бихме могли да живеем.�
🌺“Знаниет� те прави свободен, но нещастен.�
🌺“Докат� не се предава, човек е по-силен от съдбата.�
🌺�Героичното държание, момче � обърна се Ленц назидателно, � е за трудни времена. Ние обаче живеем в отчаяно време. Тогава единственото порядъчно държание е хуморът. �
🌺“Съжалениет� е най-ненужната стока на този свят —…� То е обратната страна на злорадството, ако искате да знаете. �
🌺�Естествено няма смисъл. Но човек не живее само за единия смисъл. Не е толкова просто�
🌺“Улицат� бе опустяла, някаква черна котка се стрелна пред нас. Ленц посочи към нея.
� Сега всъщност би трябвало да се върнем.
� Остави � казах аз. � Преди това видяхме една бяла. Така се уравновесяват.�
🌺“Разглежда� слушателите. Бяха хора от най-различни професии, книговодители, дребни занаятчии, чиновници, известно число работници и много жени. Те седяха тук в горещата зала, облегнати назад или приведени напред, редица до редица, лице до лице, потокът от думи ги обливаше и бе странно � колкото и различни да бяха, всички лица имаха един и същ израз на унес, еднакъв сънновстрастен поглед към далечината на една мъглива фата моргана, в “нег� имаше празнота и същевременно преголямо очакване, което угасяше всичко: критика, съмнение, възражения и въпроси, всекидневие, настояще, действителност. Човекът на подиума знаеше всичко, за всеки въпрос имаше отговор, за всяка болка � лек. Хубаво беше да му се довериш. Хубаво беше да имаш някого, който мисли за тебе. Хубаво беше да вярваш…�
🌺�Те желаят отново да вярват в нещо. Все едно в какво. Затова са и толкова фанатични.�
🌺“Неочакван� не бяхме ли станали просто две изгубили се деца, които не знаеха ни път, ни брод, а от все сърце искаха да бъдат и смели?�
🌺�Ако ние бяхме сътворили света, той щеше да бъде по-добър, нали?�
В Германия на 20-те, след като едно цяло поколение е безцелно изтребено по фронтовете на първата световна война, а оцелелите са чужденци в собствения си живот, всеки ден, в който те са далеч от лудостта, е подвиг. А наоколо препуска хиперинфлацията и усещането за бедствие и безнадеждност е повсеместно.
На този фон ветераните Роби, Готфрид и Ото са закрепили своя мъничък сал от приятелство, алкохолни пари, любов към несломимата машинна мощ на автомобилите, стоицизъм и отказ да удавят последното човешко у себе си в бесните вълни. Дори успяват да вземат на борда още неколцина пътници, сред които и красивата Пат.
Да се чете Ремарк е непоносимо истинско. Защото всъщност това не е роман, а просто вик, запечатан на хартия както кехлибарът запечатва праисторическото насекомо. И трябва периодично да поднася на слънце - но не като дрънкулка на украшение. А като памет и предупреждение. Ремарк е задължителен за всички патриотични войнолюбци. Но те, разбира се, не биха го чели. Гьобелс правилно се е ориентирал навремето спрямо Ремарк, определяйки го специално като непатриот и пораженец. Какъв по-голям комплимент от дебрите на историята?
—ĔĔĔĔ�
П.П. За любопитните - ето обосновката за изгарянето на книги в Германия на “неправилни� германски автори - феновете на Шкварек и Копейкин бързо ще познаят изразите на Гьобелс от 1933 г. - “всенароден поход срещу дързостта и предизвикателството, упадъка и моралната разруха, булевардната литература, класовата борба и материализма�. И още документирани реплики и речи от 10 май 1933 г., когато по заповед на Гьобелс се горят книги: �Срещу упадъка и моралната деградация! За дисциплина и добри нрави в семейството и държавата! Предавам на огъня трудовете на Хайнрих Ман, Ернст Глезер и Ерих Кестнер", “Предавам на огъня писанията на Ерих Мария Ремарк!�
—ĔĔĔĔ�
▶️ Цитати:
🌺 “Мож� би човек толкова е привикнал да върви по един утъпкан път, че дори и малкото свобода го смущава.�
🌺“истинат� бе безутешна и увехнала и само чувствата и отблясъкът на мечтите бяха живот…�
🌺�Странно! � каза Ленц след известно време. Защо се вдигат паметници на какви ли не хора, а няма ни един на луната или на някое цъфтящо дърво?…�
🌺“Човекъ� е лош, но обича доброто, ако го върши друг.�
🌺“� усилни времена наивността е най-скъпоценно благо, вълшебна мантия, която пази от бедите, към които свръхмъдрият тича като хипнотизиран.�
🌺“Животъ� е пъстър, но не съвършен.�
🌺“Д� се бори, да се бори � това е единственото, което в края на краищата човек трябва да прави, за да не търпи все пак поражение! Да се бори за малкото, което обича.�
🌺“� течение на живота човек се изнервя.�
🌺“Н� сте ли забелязали, че живеем във време на саморазкъсване? Че много от това, което човек би могъл да направи, въпреки всичко не прави, без да знае защо.�
🌺“Чове� не може да живее за любовта, за друг човек обаче може.�
🌺“Никог� не се извинявай, бебо. Никога не говори за това. Изпрати й цветя. Без писмо. Само цветя. Те покриват всичко. Дори гробове.�
🌺“Трудно е да се намерят слова, когато човек наистина има какво да каже.�
🌺“Ни� правим достатъчно глупости и с нашите полуистини. С целите истини изобщо не бихме могли да живеем.�
🌺“Знаниет� те прави свободен, но нещастен.�
🌺“Докат� не се предава, човек е по-силен от съдбата.�
🌺�Героичното държание, момче � обърна се Ленц назидателно, � е за трудни времена. Ние обаче живеем в отчаяно време. Тогава единственото порядъчно държание е хуморът. �
🌺“Съжалениет� е най-ненужната стока на този свят —…� То е обратната страна на злорадството, ако искате да знаете. �
🌺�Естествено няма смисъл. Но човек не живее само за единия смисъл. Не е толкова просто�
🌺“Улицат� бе опустяла, някаква черна котка се стрелна пред нас. Ленц посочи към нея.
� Сега всъщност би трябвало да се върнем.
� Остави � казах аз. � Преди това видяхме една бяла. Така се уравновесяват.�
🌺“Разглежда� слушателите. Бяха хора от най-различни професии, книговодители, дребни занаятчии, чиновници, известно число работници и много жени. Те седяха тук в горещата зала, облегнати назад или приведени напред, редица до редица, лице до лице, потокът от думи ги обливаше и бе странно � колкото и различни да бяха, всички лица имаха един и същ израз на унес, еднакъв сънновстрастен поглед към далечината на една мъглива фата моргана, в “нег� имаше празнота и същевременно преголямо очакване, което угасяше всичко: критика, съмнение, възражения и въпроси, всекидневие, настояще, действителност. Човекът на подиума знаеше всичко, за всеки въпрос имаше отговор, за всяка болка � лек. Хубаво беше да му се довериш. Хубаво беше да имаш някого, който мисли за тебе. Хубаво беше да вярваш…�
🌺�Те желаят отново да вярват в нещо. Все едно в какво. Затова са и толкова фанатични.�
🌺“Неочакван� не бяхме ли станали просто две изгубили се деца, които не знаеха ни път, ни брод, а от все сърце искаха да бъдат и смели?�
🌺�Ако ние бяхме сътворили света, той щеше да бъде по-добър, нали?�
February 27, 2024
O poveste de dragoste superbă. O prietenie care numai cei care trec împreună prin ororile războiului pot să lege. O scriere în cuvinte simple care descrie greutățile din anii '20, dar care au un impact direct. Superbă!
January 26, 2025
„� Още няма понятие какво му предстои. Бих искал да зная на каква ли война ще е обречено.
� Суров човек! � отвърна госпожа Залевски. � Нямате ли сърце?
� Имам и си е на място � заявих аз, � иначе не бих стигнал до подобна мисъл.�
„Трима другари� е невероятно силен и въздействащ роман! Както и в други свои творби, Ремарк отново е разказал много красиво и поучително тъжна житейска история...
Роби, Ото и Ленц са създали помежду си страхотно приятелство, което е тяхната опора в тежките времена след Първата световна война.А пък атмосферата в Германия определено е тягостна... Впоследствие Роби се влюбва в прекрасната Пат, като любовта между тях е наистина впечатляваща! Всички персонажи са много любопитни и запомнящи се личности... Техните животи са тежки, но и изпълнени със силни емоции!
„Що� да пуснеш нещо да се приближи, ще поискаш и да го задържиш. А човек нищо не може да задържи…�
„Н� тъкмо на тези хора днес беше най-тежко. Навярно те винаги са били най-зле. Скромността и верността към дълга биват възнаграждавани само в романите. В живота такива хора биват използувани, а после ги изтласкват настрана.�
„Думит� вече губеха съзвучието си, те се разместваха, втурваха се в други, по-пъстри ширини от тези, които им предлагаха дребните събития на моя живот; знаех, че не бяха вече истина, че ставаха фантазия и лъжа, но ми беше все едно � истината бе безутешна и увехнала и само чувствата и отблясъкът на мечтите бяха живот…�
„� Странно! � каза Ленц след известно време. Защо се вдигат паметници на какви ли не хора, а няма ни един на луната или на някое цъфтящо дърво?…�
„Имаш� ли нещо друго освен самотата?
Затворих прозореца. Не, нямаше нищо друго. За всичко останало човек намираше твърде малко почва под краката си.�
„Чове� си спомня за своите оскъдни добри качества винаги когато е твърде късно. Тогава се трогва, като си помисли колко благороден би могъл да бъде, и се смята за добродетелен. Добродетел, доброта, благородство � той махна с мощната си лапа, � качества, които човек иска да намира у другите, за да може да ги подвежда.
Ленц се ухили.
� Ти разклащаш устоите на човешкото общество, Фердинанд!
� Устоите на човешкото общество са алчност, страх и корупция � додаде Грау. � Човекът е лош, но обича доброто, ако го върши друг.�
„Н� беше задръжка, нито страх, нито предпазливост � просто една преголяма нежност, нежност, която преливаше над желанието.�
„Н� исках да давам простор на мисълта, че би могло да бъде нещо повече. Съзнавах, че във всяка любов има желание за вечност и че в това се крие вечната любовна мъка. А не съществуваше нищо трайно. Нищо.�
„� Чудни хора сте вие, младите! Миналото ненавиждате, настоящето презирате, а бъдещето ви е безразлично. Как ще се излезе на добър край!
� Всъщност, какво наричате добър край? � попитах аз. � Краят може да бъде добър само ако преди това всичко е било лошо. Тогава и лошият край е много по-добър.�
„� Това, което казваш, е вярно само наполовина, Роби.
� Така е с всички истини � отвърнах аз. � Никога няма да стигнем по-далеч. Затова сме хора. Ние правим достатъчно глупости и с нашите полуистини. С целите истини изобщо не бихме могли да живеем.�
„� не съумявам да го изразя, тъй като все още не зная какво собствено намираш в мене.
� Нека то бъде само моя грижа � заяви тя.
� А ти знаеш ли го?
� Ненапълно � отвърна тя усмихнато. � Иначе това вече не би било любов.�
� Суров човек! � отвърна госпожа Залевски. � Нямате ли сърце?
� Имам и си е на място � заявих аз, � иначе не бих стигнал до подобна мисъл.�
„Трима другари� е невероятно силен и въздействащ роман! Както и в други свои творби, Ремарк отново е разказал много красиво и поучително тъжна житейска история...
Роби, Ото и Ленц са създали помежду си страхотно приятелство, което е тяхната опора в тежките времена след Първата световна война.А пък атмосферата в Германия определено е тягостна... Впоследствие Роби се влюбва в прекрасната Пат, като любовта между тях е наистина впечатляваща! Всички персонажи са много любопитни и запомнящи се личности... Техните животи са тежки, но и изпълнени със силни емоции!
„Що� да пуснеш нещо да се приближи, ще поискаш и да го задържиш. А човек нищо не може да задържи…�
„Н� тъкмо на тези хора днес беше най-тежко. Навярно те винаги са били най-зле. Скромността и верността към дълга биват възнаграждавани само в романите. В живота такива хора биват използувани, а после ги изтласкват настрана.�
„Думит� вече губеха съзвучието си, те се разместваха, втурваха се в други, по-пъстри ширини от тези, които им предлагаха дребните събития на моя живот; знаех, че не бяха вече истина, че ставаха фантазия и лъжа, но ми беше все едно � истината бе безутешна и увехнала и само чувствата и отблясъкът на мечтите бяха живот…�
„� Странно! � каза Ленц след известно време. Защо се вдигат паметници на какви ли не хора, а няма ни един на луната или на някое цъфтящо дърво?…�
„Имаш� ли нещо друго освен самотата?
Затворих прозореца. Не, нямаше нищо друго. За всичко останало човек намираше твърде малко почва под краката си.�
„Чове� си спомня за своите оскъдни добри качества винаги когато е твърде късно. Тогава се трогва, като си помисли колко благороден би могъл да бъде, и се смята за добродетелен. Добродетел, доброта, благородство � той махна с мощната си лапа, � качества, които човек иска да намира у другите, за да може да ги подвежда.
Ленц се ухили.
� Ти разклащаш устоите на човешкото общество, Фердинанд!
� Устоите на човешкото общество са алчност, страх и корупция � додаде Грау. � Човекът е лош, но обича доброто, ако го върши друг.�
„Н� беше задръжка, нито страх, нито предпазливост � просто една преголяма нежност, нежност, която преливаше над желанието.�
„Н� исках да давам простор на мисълта, че би могло да бъде нещо повече. Съзнавах, че във всяка любов има желание за вечност и че в това се крие вечната любовна мъка. А не съществуваше нищо трайно. Нищо.�
„� Чудни хора сте вие, младите! Миналото ненавиждате, настоящето презирате, а бъдещето ви е безразлично. Как ще се излезе на добър край!
� Всъщност, какво наричате добър край? � попитах аз. � Краят може да бъде добър само ако преди това всичко е било лошо. Тогава и лошият край е много по-добър.�
„� Това, което казваш, е вярно само наполовина, Роби.
� Така е с всички истини � отвърнах аз. � Никога няма да стигнем по-далеч. Затова сме хора. Ние правим достатъчно глупости и с нашите полуистини. С целите истини изобщо не бихме могли да живеем.�
„� не съумявам да го изразя, тъй като все още не зная какво собствено намираш в мене.
� Нека то бъде само моя грижа � заяви тя.
� А ти знаеш ли го?
� Ненапълно � отвърна тя усмихнато. � Иначе това вече не би било любов.�
May 24, 2017
প্রথ� বিশ্বযুদ্ধের তি� পোড়খাওয়া সৈনিকে� গল্প থ্রি কমরেডস� রবার্ট, গোটফ্রী� আর ওটো। ওদের সঙ্গী হিসেবে আছ� আর� একজন-- কার্�, দ্� রো� স্পুক। আপাত� লক্কড়ঝক্ক� চেহারা� তাগড়া� এক রেসিংকার� কার্লক� নিয়� রাস্তায় রে� দিতে গিয়েই ওদের সঙ্গ� পরিচয় হয� প্যাট্রিসিয়� হফম্যানের।
তারপ�?
কখ�, কীসে� টানে মানু� পায় যে বেঁচ� থাকা� মানে; ঝাপস� চোখে দেখা এইসব, সেইস� শহরে..
প্যাটে� মধ্যেই রবার্ট খুঁজ� পেয়েছিল সে� বেঁচ� থাকা� মানে� স্বপ্ন দেখেছিলো এক আকাশের নিচে বাকি জীবনটা একসঙ্গ� কাটানোর।
কিন্তু এক উন্মত্� বিধাতা� তৈরি এক ধূসর- অন্তবিহী� আকাশ, মানুষে� জীবন- মৃত্যু নিয়� যিনি খেলা করেন নিজে� মনোরঞ্জনের জন্য... তিনি কি সেটা হত� দে�?
বল� হয�, সম্ভবত এট� লেখকের সবচেয়� অনুভূতিময়, কোমল উপন্যাসে� একটি� পড়েছিলা� সেবা� চমৎকার বঙ্গানুবাদ�, মাসু� মাহমুদের করা।
আমার পড়া তৃতীয় সেরা প্রেমে� উপন্যা� থ্রি কমরেডস�
তারপ�?
কখ�, কীসে� টানে মানু� পায় যে বেঁচ� থাকা� মানে; ঝাপস� চোখে দেখা এইসব, সেইস� শহরে..
প্যাটে� মধ্যেই রবার্ট খুঁজ� পেয়েছিল সে� বেঁচ� থাকা� মানে� স্বপ্ন দেখেছিলো এক আকাশের নিচে বাকি জীবনটা একসঙ্গ� কাটানোর।
কিন্তু এক উন্মত্� বিধাতা� তৈরি এক ধূসর- অন্তবিহী� আকাশ, মানুষে� জীবন- মৃত্যু নিয়� যিনি খেলা করেন নিজে� মনোরঞ্জনের জন্য... তিনি কি সেটা হত� দে�?
No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one.
No truth, sincerity, strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow.
All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it,
but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning...
বল� হয�, সম্ভবত এট� লেখকের সবচেয়� অনুভূতিময়, কোমল উপন্যাসে� একটি� পড়েছিলা� সেবা� চমৎকার বঙ্গানুবাদ�, মাসু� মাহমুদের করা।
আমার পড়া তৃতীয় সেরা প্রেমে� উপন্যা� থ্রি কমরেডস�
October 31, 2022
The story about the lost generation, young men and women suffering from the economic collapse of 1920s Germany. They hustle to get any jobs when there are none and they drink their brains out every evening. Everything is very nihilistic, everyone is living just for today, and when the main hero, Rob, falls in love and thinks maybe there can be happiness after all, Remarque is ruthless and punishes him. Hope is futile. Very bleak story.
Somewhere around 60 % I suddenly thought about The Magic mountain. Why? I’m curious about it myself. What do these books have in common? Both written in German! Two men who lost their country to madness. Ok, written in the interwar period and I would argue can be only written back then, not later. Getting warmer. Remarque was a working class young man of 18 when he was drafted into the infantry during ww1. Mann couldn't be further from the working class, a dying European aristocracy, old money, no idea where he spent ww1 but I assume somewhere in Switzerland. Ok, getting cooler. One was a lady’s man, for which Mann resented him, the other was� hm� thirsting for his pubescent naked son. Paging doctor Freud! Cold, so cold! Both were banned by nazis, Remarque’s sister was killed since they couldn’t get to him. Know almost nothing about the other guy’s history. Both wrote melancholy works, one is a very cinematic writer, for the people, the other one is an intellectual to be enjoyed by very very smart people. Both books about dying, time, nihilism, sanatorium in Switzerland. Ok, maybe that's it? See, I read only one Mann and never was interested to pick up another one of his, and almost all Remarque, so that tells you something about me and also I’ll be stopping here, cause I’m so out of my depth with Mann. Just a long way to say that I almost want to re-read Magic Mountain but then I remember that there was that second half. Sorry for rambling!
Anywho, back to this book. It’s often good, lots of great observations, sometimes eye-rolly and melodramatic, on the whole a solid work of an early Remarque, not my favorite, not my least favorite. Sad book about sad times, perfect for a very sad moi.
Somewhere around 60 % I suddenly thought about The Magic mountain. Why? I’m curious about it myself. What do these books have in common? Both written in German! Two men who lost their country to madness. Ok, written in the interwar period and I would argue can be only written back then, not later. Getting warmer. Remarque was a working class young man of 18 when he was drafted into the infantry during ww1. Mann couldn't be further from the working class, a dying European aristocracy, old money, no idea where he spent ww1 but I assume somewhere in Switzerland. Ok, getting cooler. One was a lady’s man, for which Mann resented him, the other was� hm� thirsting for his pubescent naked son. Paging doctor Freud! Cold, so cold! Both were banned by nazis, Remarque’s sister was killed since they couldn’t get to him. Know almost nothing about the other guy’s history. Both wrote melancholy works, one is a very cinematic writer, for the people, the other one is an intellectual to be enjoyed by very very smart people. Both books about dying, time, nihilism, sanatorium in Switzerland. Ok, maybe that's it? See, I read only one Mann and never was interested to pick up another one of his, and almost all Remarque, so that tells you something about me and also I’ll be stopping here, cause I’m so out of my depth with Mann. Just a long way to say that I almost want to re-read Magic Mountain but then I remember that there was that second half. Sorry for rambling!
Anywho, back to this book. It’s often good, lots of great observations, sometimes eye-rolly and melodramatic, on the whole a solid work of an early Remarque, not my favorite, not my least favorite. Sad book about sad times, perfect for a very sad moi.
July 25, 2023
Life and death from the POV of a war vet
🔥🔥Life and death from the POV of a war veteran, Robert, the male protagonist. It is at once a story of loss, of recovery, of friendship among three men, of love for a young woman, of despair about war and destiny and God. Sometimes Robert/Erich rants and preaches about the futility of life but most of the time the writing is solid and not a soapbox. It gets better once the romance with Patricia begins which occurs about a third of the way into the book. I had expected more about the rise of National Socialism but there is only one incident near the end. Ultimately this novel is, like All Quiet, a tragedy, yet there are many pages of beauty and hope and sheer joy as well.
🔥🔥Life and death from the POV of a war veteran, Robert, the male protagonist. It is at once a story of loss, of recovery, of friendship among three men, of love for a young woman, of despair about war and destiny and God. Sometimes Robert/Erich rants and preaches about the futility of life but most of the time the writing is solid and not a soapbox. It gets better once the romance with Patricia begins which occurs about a third of the way into the book. I had expected more about the rise of National Socialism but there is only one incident near the end. Ultimately this novel is, like All Quiet, a tragedy, yet there are many pages of beauty and hope and sheer joy as well.
February 1, 2013
"Es ist besser, zu sterben, wenn man noch leben möchte, als zu sterben und man möchte auch sterben." (it's better to die while you still want to live, than to die and want to die)
The novel is called Three Comrades but there were actually 4 of them - Robert Lohkamp, Otto Köster, Gottfried Lenz and Patrice Hollmann whom they meet in the very beginning of the novel and who became an essential part of it. And there were also other people who weren't formally "comrades" but they could be called so because all they helped each other in this or that way. Ferdinand Grau, Fred, Gustav, Alfons... They all knew how hard the life can be sometimes and tried to help those for whom it was harder then for themselves. This is a novel about true friendship, when you can do anything for your friend.
All the characters are memorable and very realistic that's why you get used to them quickly and immediately begin to feel involved in their life, you share their emotions and can't help smiling or becoming sad when they do so. I liked them all - Robby who is sometimes a bit childish and learns to love having met Pat, "the last romantic" Lenz, always so cheerful and optimistic, Otto, so calm and reserved but who can feel probably even deeper than all other characters, Pat, sometimes so elegant and charming, sometimes funny bu always very brave, kind-hearted Alfons, philosophical Ferdinand... And though in the end there are only two comrades of four you can't help thinking that this friendship will live forever.
The language here is plain but very rich, I especially enjoyed the descriptions which were very colorful due to plenties of similes.
This novel is not an easy one, especially the end, but still it is pleasant to read. I can't say that it's absolutely melancholic, but the time in which the characters live isn't too cheerful and of course it influenced the whole tone of the book. here you can see the real life of Germany of that time with all its problems - unemployment, poverty, people, who were broken down by the war both physically and morally, prostitution, political meetings which promise much and give nothing... But it has a kind of optimistic feeling about it too. There are characters who have lived through the war, but it hadn't broken their spirit, they want to live even more, want to have the time of their life. Their parties, dances, drinking and hilarity with all those problems in the background may seem insane, but on the other hand it was the only way to survive.
I think the quote with which I began this review is the main idea of the book - you should live brightly, take as much as you can from your life up to the last day of it. And the main characters did so... It's okay if you haven't done everything you wanted during your life because it would take an eternity to complete everything. But if you haven't done anything because you were busy with pitying yourself... then did you live at all?
January 13, 2024
ثلاثة رفاق
اريش ماريا ريمارك
ثلاثة رفاق، وسيارة متينة، وحبيبة رقيقة.
مغامرات وصعوبات وقصة حب مؤثرة.
أوقات عصيبة
إذا كانت رواية كل شيء هادئ في الجبهة الغربية تصور معاناة الجنود أثناء الحرب العالمية الأولى، وكانت ليلة لشبونة تصور قمع الشعب في ظل النازية، فإن ثلاثة رفاق تصور حياة الناس بين هاتين الفترتين. الجو العام مشحون بالتوتر، الاقتصاد في تدهور مستمر، الاحتقان السياسي آخذ في التصاعد، والنازية تشق طريقها إلى سدة الحكم. لا يكتفي ريمارك بوصف بيئة الأحداث بل يجعلها عنصراً مشاركاً في الحبكة، فهذا ينتحر بسبب الأوضاع الاقتصادية والآخر يُقتل بسبب تفاقم العنف السياسي وهلما جرّا.
عذوبة الصداقة
على النقيض من روايتيه المذكورتين أعلاه، وجدتُ في هذه الرواية خطوطاً سردية أقل سوداوية. تصوير الصداقة بين الثلاثة رفاق اللذين شاركوا في الحرب المنصرمة سوياً كان دافئاً ومؤثراً. هناك مشاهد سباق سيارات، معارك بالقبضات، والكثير الكثير من الكحول. الثلاثة مختلفون من حيث الشخصيات غير أنهم ملتزمون بعهد الصداقة من حيث تقديم التنازلات، المسارعة لتقديم المساعدة ومشاركة الرفاق في الحلو والمر. صحيح أن الرواية تُحكى على لسان واحد من الأصدقاء، وكان التركيز الأكبر عليه من بين الرفاق، غير أن الرواية محمولة ولا شك على أكتاف الثلاثة جميعهم.
كثير من الحب كثير من المتاعب
للوهلة الأولى تبدو قصة الحب بين روبرت وبات كواحة وسط دوامات الخراب والفقر المعاصرة. تتطور العلاقة بينهما كمقطوعة موسيقي، تتخللها مشاكل العشق اللطيفة -مقارنة بظروف العيش القاسية- من غيرة واشتياق وتزعزع الثقة بالنفس. لاحقاً تتحول العلاقة إلى عنصر تراجيدي آخر وسط الرواية التي تزداد سوداويتها باقتراب نهايتها.
الرواية طويلة لكنها ممتعة. ربما هناك مشاهد طويلة لم تساهم في تطور الحبكة، ربما كان هناك نقص فيما يرويه الكاتب عن الشخصيات الرئيسية، غير أنها رواية مفعمة بالأحداث، حيوية بوصفها للظروف، متقنة في البناء السردي.
اريش ماريا ريمارك
ثلاثة رفاق، وسيارة متينة، وحبيبة رقيقة.
مغامرات وصعوبات وقصة حب مؤثرة.
أوقات عصيبة
إذا كانت رواية كل شيء هادئ في الجبهة الغربية تصور معاناة الجنود أثناء الحرب العالمية الأولى، وكانت ليلة لشبونة تصور قمع الشعب في ظل النازية، فإن ثلاثة رفاق تصور حياة الناس بين هاتين الفترتين. الجو العام مشحون بالتوتر، الاقتصاد في تدهور مستمر، الاحتقان السياسي آخذ في التصاعد، والنازية تشق طريقها إلى سدة الحكم. لا يكتفي ريمارك بوصف بيئة الأحداث بل يجعلها عنصراً مشاركاً في الحبكة، فهذا ينتحر بسبب الأوضاع الاقتصادية والآخر يُقتل بسبب تفاقم العنف السياسي وهلما جرّا.
عذوبة الصداقة
على النقيض من روايتيه المذكورتين أعلاه، وجدتُ في هذه الرواية خطوطاً سردية أقل سوداوية. تصوير الصداقة بين الثلاثة رفاق اللذين شاركوا في الحرب المنصرمة سوياً كان دافئاً ومؤثراً. هناك مشاهد سباق سيارات، معارك بالقبضات، والكثير الكثير من الكحول. الثلاثة مختلفون من حيث الشخصيات غير أنهم ملتزمون بعهد الصداقة من حيث تقديم التنازلات، المسارعة لتقديم المساعدة ومشاركة الرفاق في الحلو والمر. صحيح أن الرواية تُحكى على لسان واحد من الأصدقاء، وكان التركيز الأكبر عليه من بين الرفاق، غير أن الرواية محمولة ولا شك على أكتاف الثلاثة جميعهم.
كثير من الحب كثير من المتاعب
للوهلة الأولى تبدو قصة الحب بين روبرت وبات كواحة وسط دوامات الخراب والفقر المعاصرة. تتطور العلاقة بينهما كمقطوعة موسيقي، تتخللها مشاكل العشق اللطيفة -مقارنة بظروف العيش القاسية- من غيرة واشتياق وتزعزع الثقة بالنفس. لاحقاً تتحول العلاقة إلى عنصر تراجيدي آخر وسط الرواية التي تزداد سوداويتها باقتراب نهايتها.
الرواية طويلة لكنها ممتعة. ربما هناك مشاهد طويلة لم تساهم في تطور الحبكة، ربما كان هناك نقص فيما يرويه الكاتب عن الشخصيات الرئيسية، غير أنها رواية مفعمة بالأحداث، حيوية بوصفها للظروف، متقنة في البناء السردي.
October 18, 2022
It is a beautiful, cozy, and heartbreaking story!
August 6, 2024
"وبعدها أتى الصباح ولم تعد بات موجودة"
هكذا ببساطة شديدة وواثقة كسهم القدر يختتم إريش ماريا ريماك معزوفته الرائعة
"ثلاثة رفاق"
يا له من وجود زائف، خالِ من أي معنى، عصي على الفهم، سِمَته الدائمة والأبدية هي أن تعاني وتشقى
هذا هو الإيمان السائد الذي كان يعتقده من عاش في أوروبا بين الحربين العالميتين.
ولكن هل يمكن أن يؤمن الانسان بشيء سواه...!
من خلال الحياة اليومية لمجموعة من الرفاق وحفنة من الناس هنا وهناك يجسد إريش ماريا ريماك الحرب ومأساة الوجود، فهو ينطلق من حدث بسيط وتافه وعابر ليوصل فلسفته وفنه، وهنا تكمن براعته.
أحببت الرواية وشغفت بها، وبذلك ينضم إريش ماريا ريماك إلى قائمة كُتَّابي المفضلين.
التقييم:٥/٥
هكذا ببساطة شديدة وواثقة كسهم القدر يختتم إريش ماريا ريماك معزوفته الرائعة
"ثلاثة رفاق"
يا له من وجود زائف، خالِ من أي معنى، عصي على الفهم، سِمَته الدائمة والأبدية هي أن تعاني وتشقى
هذا هو الإيمان السائد الذي كان يعتقده من عاش في أوروبا بين الحربين العالميتين.
ولكن هل يمكن أن يؤمن الانسان بشيء سواه...!
من خلال الحياة اليومية لمجموعة من الرفاق وحفنة من الناس هنا وهناك يجسد إريش ماريا ريماك الحرب ومأساة الوجود، فهو ينطلق من حدث بسيط وتافه وعابر ليوصل فلسفته وفنه، وهنا تكمن براعته.
أحببت الرواية وشغفت بها، وبذلك ينضم إريش ماريا ريماك إلى قائمة كُتَّابي المفضلين.
التقييم:٥/٥
November 8, 2019
ثلاثة رفاق - إريك ماريا ريمارك
هذه الرواية عن الحرب وما يليها من فقر ومرض وبطالة وأبناء البلد الذين ينقلبون على بعضهم البعض وكأنهم حين هزموا من الآخرين لم يجدوا من يحاربونه سوى أخوتهم في الوطن .
عن الكفاح والرفاق الذين يثرون الحياة وبدونهم تغدو محض عدم .
..مع كل كتاب أقرأه لـ ريمارك أتيقنُّ من كونه كاتبي المفضل
قوة نصوصه ورهافتها بذات الوقت وكيف يعبِّر عن النفس البشرية وخباياها والفلسفة التي تحملها شخصياته مع حزنهم الكبير بالوجود وتبعاته .
أحب ريمارك كما لم أحب كاتبًا آخر .
هذه الرواية عن الحرب وما يليها من فقر ومرض وبطالة وأبناء البلد الذين ينقلبون على بعضهم البعض وكأنهم حين هزموا من الآخرين لم يجدوا من يحاربونه سوى أخوتهم في الوطن .
عن الكفاح والرفاق الذين يثرون الحياة وبدونهم تغدو محض عدم .
..مع كل كتاب أقرأه لـ ريمارك أتيقنُّ من كونه كاتبي المفضل
قوة نصوصه ورهافتها بذات الوقت وكيف يعبِّر عن النفس البشرية وخباياها والفلسفة التي تحملها شخصياته مع حزنهم الكبير بالوجود وتبعاته .
أحب ريمارك كما لم أحب كاتبًا آخر .
March 13, 2022
Taste the prose:
"Only the unhappy man appreciates happiness. The happy man is a mannequin for the life-feeling. He displays it merely; he doesn't possess it. Light doesn't shine in the light; it shines in the dark."
“I did not want to think so much about her. I wanted to take her as an unexpected, delightful gift, that had come and would go again � nothing more. I meant not to give room to the thought that it could ever be more. I knew too well that all love has the desire for eternity and that therein lies its eternal torment. Nothing lasts. Nothing.�
“Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.�
“To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory.�
“The music enchanted the air. It was like the south wind, like a warm night, like swelling sails beneath the stars, completely and utterly unreal.�
"The broad baroque spires of the cathedral towered beyond the rooves of the houses. They gleamed green and silver against the receding fosforescent sky where the moon hung like a great flaming onion."
"The mountain walls towered steep and bare above us into the night. The engine roared in bottom gear, and curve after curve dropped downward. Suddenly the beam of the searchlight slid off the slope and plunged into nothingness."
“It's no shame to be born stupid. Only to die stupid.�
Somme lines are beautiful, others are exciting and put fear in your heart. Many offer food for thought.
Besides the wonderful prose, there are two additional reasons awhy you should read this book. It does an excellent job of describing Germany between the wars and why Hitler came to power. The story is however at all times kept on a personal level. The title says it all—this is a story about comradeship, friendship and what you will do for a friend. A close friend, someone close to your heart!
How much more should I say? Not too much, I want you to read the story rather than listen to me. For those who might want to know, . As the plot unfolds, I asked myself what Remarque would choose to do now. I was consistently pleased. Writing a story is a work of creation and imagination.
Michael Braun narrates the audiobook very well. All the words are clear. I have drawn off one star because he at times attempts to increase suspense by his voice taking om a breathless tone. I dislike this overdramatization. I am giving the narration four rather than five stars as a result.
Thank you, Rosemarie, for urging me to read this book! The prose is wonderful. The book too!
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* 5 stars
* 5 stars
* 4 stars
* 4 stars
* TBR
* TBR
* TBR
"Only the unhappy man appreciates happiness. The happy man is a mannequin for the life-feeling. He displays it merely; he doesn't possess it. Light doesn't shine in the light; it shines in the dark."
“I did not want to think so much about her. I wanted to take her as an unexpected, delightful gift, that had come and would go again � nothing more. I meant not to give room to the thought that it could ever be more. I knew too well that all love has the desire for eternity and that therein lies its eternal torment. Nothing lasts. Nothing.�
“Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.�
“To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory.�
“The music enchanted the air. It was like the south wind, like a warm night, like swelling sails beneath the stars, completely and utterly unreal.�
"The broad baroque spires of the cathedral towered beyond the rooves of the houses. They gleamed green and silver against the receding fosforescent sky where the moon hung like a great flaming onion."
"The mountain walls towered steep and bare above us into the night. The engine roared in bottom gear, and curve after curve dropped downward. Suddenly the beam of the searchlight slid off the slope and plunged into nothingness."
“It's no shame to be born stupid. Only to die stupid.�
Somme lines are beautiful, others are exciting and put fear in your heart. Many offer food for thought.
Besides the wonderful prose, there are two additional reasons awhy you should read this book. It does an excellent job of describing Germany between the wars and why Hitler came to power. The story is however at all times kept on a personal level. The title says it all—this is a story about comradeship, friendship and what you will do for a friend. A close friend, someone close to your heart!
How much more should I say? Not too much, I want you to read the story rather than listen to me. For those who might want to know, . As the plot unfolds, I asked myself what Remarque would choose to do now. I was consistently pleased. Writing a story is a work of creation and imagination.
Michael Braun narrates the audiobook very well. All the words are clear. I have drawn off one star because he at times attempts to increase suspense by his voice taking om a breathless tone. I dislike this overdramatization. I am giving the narration four rather than five stars as a result.
Thank you, Rosemarie, for urging me to read this book! The prose is wonderful. The book too!
*
* 5 stars
* 5 stars
* 4 stars
* 4 stars
* TBR
* TBR
* TBR
August 27, 2014
With blinded eyes I stared at the sky, this grey, endless sky of a crazy god, who made life and death for his amusement.
I think my grandmother would've liked Three Comrades. She may have read it. She passed in 2003 and I often miss her. The ranks of my rogues gallery of family contained only one reader and Stella Short was that and certainly something else. I'd like to think she died with a book in her lap.
Three Comrades is a melodrama about survivors of the Great War discovering the extent of their personal damage in the depressed cauldron of Germany in the late 1920s. This isn't an exploration of material poverty but one of irreparable moral damage. Spirit (Geist) died for these men. What is left but hard drinking and fast cars? There is always love. but such has a terminal cost on this stage. There is no great wrenching of ideas here but the affairs remain palpable, even visceral.
I thought today about Sarah Churchwell and her book on Careless People in the Gatsby. Perhaps this reaction was global?
I think my grandmother would've liked Three Comrades. She may have read it. She passed in 2003 and I often miss her. The ranks of my rogues gallery of family contained only one reader and Stella Short was that and certainly something else. I'd like to think she died with a book in her lap.
Three Comrades is a melodrama about survivors of the Great War discovering the extent of their personal damage in the depressed cauldron of Germany in the late 1920s. This isn't an exploration of material poverty but one of irreparable moral damage. Spirit (Geist) died for these men. What is left but hard drinking and fast cars? There is always love. but such has a terminal cost on this stage. There is no great wrenching of ideas here but the affairs remain palpable, even visceral.
I thought today about Sarah Churchwell and her book on Careless People in the Gatsby. Perhaps this reaction was global?
February 21, 2024
This is my 6th Remarque novel, beginning with his ground breaking WWI classic, All Quiet on the Western Front (1928), which was also his debut. Three Comrades (1936) was his third novel, and like most of his books that followed his debut, it is set in Germany in the years between the two world wars.
Altogether he wrote eleven novels and since the six that I have read have been outstanding, I look forward to reading the remaining five.
Altogether he wrote eleven novels and since the six that I have read have been outstanding, I look forward to reading the remaining five.
March 8, 2011
Очень яркий и проникновенный роман о любви. Действие разворачивается в Германии 30-х гг., со всеми ее "прелестями" в виде тяжелого экономического кризиса и всеобщего упадка настроений, дикой инфляции, растущей безработицы и общего ощущения какой-то безнадежности, когда будущее кажется абсолютно беспросветным. Хотя даже и в такой обстановке есть место для любви, но для любви соответствующей обстоятельствам � надрывной, искренней, отчаянной, находящейся на грани жизни и смерти.
Читала книгу не отрываясь, полностью погрузившись в ее атмосферу. Герои здесь настолько яркие и живые, что воспринимаются как настоящие люди, за которых переживаешь, как за близких друзей. И оттого еще тяжелее концовка. Давно со мной не было такого, чтобы после прочтения не ком в горле стоял или слезы в глазах, нет, я просто ревела в голос. Очень уж сильные эмоции вызвал роман, так что не думаю, что когда-нибудь решусь его перечитать. Но один раз это сделать стоило.
В общем, замечательная книга. О жизни. О смерти. О дружбе. О любви�
9/10
Читала книгу не отрываясь, полностью погрузившись в ее атмосферу. Герои здесь настолько яркие и живые, что воспринимаются как настоящие люди, за которых переживаешь, как за близких друзей. И оттого еще тяжелее концовка. Давно со мной не было такого, чтобы после прочтения не ком в горле стоял или слезы в глазах, нет, я просто ревела в голос. Очень уж сильные эмоции вызвал роман, так что не думаю, что когда-нибудь решусь его перечитать. Но один раз это сделать стоило.
В общем, замечательная книга. О жизни. О смерти. О дружбе. О любви�
9/10
January 25, 2016
This novel is the 2nd Greatest book I've read, 2nd only to another Remarque classic, All Quiet On the Western Front. I like to think of myself as the full-blooded manliest man there is (its true), but I don't feel even an ounce of shame to admit that this is the very first time I cried while reading a book, and every time i re-read it (I almost memorized the whole novel after reading countless times), it never fails to bring a drop of tear on my eye. This is the BEST DAMN Romantic Story/Friend-circle Story of All-time, period. Anyone who doesn't like this book is just not human!
April 7, 2021
Remarkas vienas mėgstamiausių mano rašytojų, o ši knyga viena jo geriausių.
October 30, 2020
تحكي الرواية عن "ثلاثة رفاق" عاشوا ويلات الحرب العالمية الأولى على الجبهة، وبعد رجوعهم أصبحوا ينتمون إلى طائفة الفاشلين الكسالى بأمانيهم الكثيرة بلا هدف، ورغباتهم التي لا تعود عليهم بشيء، وحبهم الذي بلا مستقبل، وضياعهم الذي بلا تعقل، مقامرون ويضيعون فرص الحياة مقابل عدم تغيير تلك الصورة اللاواقعية عنها، الصورة المحفورة في قلوبهم مدفونة فيهم ولا يمكن محوها في تلك الساعات والأيام والليالي التي لا يوجد فيها سوى الحياة العارية والموت العاري.
"ثلاثة رفاق" امتلكوا ورشة لتصليح السيارات ومع تفاقم الضائقة المالية أجبر معظم الناس على ايداع سياراتهم المرائب خوفاً من تكاليف البنزين والتصليح، وهكذا أصبح لديهم "تاكسي" مصدر رزقهم الوحيد الذي لا يكفي لـ"ثلاثة رفاق".
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يستعرض ريمارك باسلوبه الساحر الجاذب حياة هؤلاء الرفاق اليومية وتضحياتهم لبعض، وعلاقاتهم وعملهم ولقاءاتهم الصاخبة ومقامراتهم وهزائمهم، فيجعلك تعيش أجواء الخوف على حال الشعوب من بعد الحروب.
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رواية طويلة وعميقة وترجمة رائعة، وطريقة السرد ممتعة في توضيح مفهوم فلسفة الحياة، وكيفية استسلام الانسان عندما يفقد ما يحبه.
سيظل ريمارك على قائمة كتابي المفضلين.
"ثلاثة رفاق" امتلكوا ورشة لتصليح السيارات ومع تفاقم الضائقة المالية أجبر معظم الناس على ايداع سياراتهم المرائب خوفاً من تكاليف البنزين والتصليح، وهكذا أصبح لديهم "تاكسي" مصدر رزقهم الوحيد الذي لا يكفي لـ"ثلاثة رفاق".
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يستعرض ريمارك باسلوبه الساحر الجاذب حياة هؤلاء الرفاق اليومية وتضحياتهم لبعض، وعلاقاتهم وعملهم ولقاءاتهم الصاخبة ومقامراتهم وهزائمهم، فيجعلك تعيش أجواء الخوف على حال الشعوب من بعد الحروب.
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رواية طويلة وعميقة وترجمة رائعة، وطريقة السرد ممتعة في توضيح مفهوم فلسفة الحياة، وكيفية استسلام الانسان عندما يفقد ما يحبه.
سيظل ريمارك على قائمة كتابي المفضلين.
September 20, 2020
I jumped up, so unreal, so much as if out of another world did this picture appear to me now—the wide, blue sky, the white lines of foam, and the lovely slender figure against it—as if I alone were in the world and out of the water came stepping the first woman. For one instant I felt the immense, quiet power of beauty, and knew that it was stronger than all the bloodstained past; that it must be stronger, else the world would collapse, sink down and perish in its own chaos. And more even than that I felt that I was there, simply there, and that Pat was there, that I lived, that I had escaped the horror, that I had eyes and hands and thoughts and hot pulsing blood, and that all that was a miracle beyond comprehension.
May 19, 2017
وبكل بساطة انتهت !
ثلاثة رفاق والرابعة انا هكذا كانت الرواية !
إن لم تكن احد الرفاق اثناء قراءتها فأنت لم تقرأها
كارل كوستر لينس روبي وبات
في الصفحة الاخيره تمنيت لو ان يدي تمسك بمئة صفحة اخرى لم اقرأها واصل اليها.
الرواية تتحدث عن ثلاثة رفاق في احداث مابعد الحرب العالمية في المانيا ومعاناة الشباب في البطالة ومحاول كسب المال بشتى الطرق
رواية عن الحب والصداقة والكفاح لكن بدون الم بنظرات ايجابية وضحكات ورومنسية كـ رومنسية لينس فيها.
ثلاثة رفاق والرابعة انا هكذا كانت الرواية !
إن لم تكن احد الرفاق اثناء قراءتها فأنت لم تقرأها
كارل كوستر لينس روبي وبات
في الصفحة الاخيره تمنيت لو ان يدي تمسك بمئة صفحة اخرى لم اقرأها واصل اليها.
الرواية تتحدث عن ثلاثة رفاق في احداث مابعد الحرب العالمية في المانيا ومعاناة الشباب في البطالة ومحاول كسب المال بشتى الطرق
رواية عن الحب والصداقة والكفاح لكن بدون الم بنظرات ايجابية وضحكات ورومنسية كـ رومنسية لينس فيها.
April 30, 2012
Read this book twice and would read it over and over again. Definitely a staple in my library. I have the Russian edition, I am not sure how the english one reads but it is an absolutely amazing read that touches on so many topics so many of us can relate to.. the lost generation, the destruction brought about by the war and the dispersed populace living or scrambling to make a living in many countries. that shamed german diaspora that's not really german in a sense that they did not support nasizm, didn't stay and didn't fight but are still viewed as the common enemy by many other countries. basically, it is a generation lost without a home, they can't go back to where they came from and they will never be fully accepted where they currently live. The bonds formed out of loneliness and desperation are the strongest and yet, misery always lurkes right below the surface, whether that surface is a never ending party, glitzy and polished or as decrepid as the state of their finances or the prospects for their collective future ...
October 29, 2017
Когато бях тийнейджърка, това беше един от моите три любими романа, заедно с "Цитаделата" на Кронин и "Вино от глухарчета". Интересно ми беше сега, след толкова години, как ще го възприема. Усещането ми беше като завръщане вкъщи. Да, страничният наблюдател вероятно би забелязал малко повече патетика в определени моменти, но аз не съм такъв. И друго ми дойде наум, като откритие: едва ли има друг писател, който толкова много да ми е повлиял. А последно го бях чела преди няколко десетилетия.
December 11, 2022
Przeczytałam tę książkę na raz! Była świetna! Mój zachwyt nad tym autorem trwa!
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