“There are nights when the whole world seems to be a vast, dark labyrinth, and you are lost in it.” Chapter 1: The Encounter A nameless narrator, a […]
German literature
The Black Obelisk
“The dead are always wrong. They should have stayed alive.” Chapter 1: Post-War Germany Ludwig Bodmer, a young veteran of World War I, works at a monument company […]
German literature
Arch of Triumph
“A man can bear almost anything if he has to.” The novel follows Dr. Ravic, a German refugee surgeon living in Paris under a false identity after fleeing […]
German literature
The Road Back
“We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.” Chapter 1: Return from the Front The novel […]
German literature
All Quiet on the Western Front
“This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face […]