Black obelisk

The Black Obelisk (1956) is the famous Remarck’s novel, in many ways autobiographical.

difficult 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 of the organ in the chapel at the hospital. He meets his love 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 - a bright historical picture of the era, where an approaching fascism is more and more noticeable.