Black obelisk

“Black Obelisk” (1956) - the famous Remarck’s novel, largely autobiographical.

Complex years after the First World War, a provincial German town, the hero works in the company for the sale of tombstones. But there is not enough money, there is monstrous inflation in the country, and he works as a game on the organ in the chapel at the hospital. He meets his love exactly there, in the psychiatric department...

“Black Obelisk” - on the one hand, a novel about the great power of love that can cure even the mentally ill, on the other hand - philosophical thoughts about God, religion, meaning Life, and finally, with the third, is a bright historical picture of the era, where the approaching fascism declares itself more and more noticeably.