Love thy neighbour. Night in Lisbon. Remarck Erich Maria

“Love your neighbor” (1939) is a novel about German emigrants forced to wander around the pre -war Europe. They hide, starve, secretly cross the boundaries, many of their relatives and friends in concentration camps. Having lost their homeland and the usual way of life, undergoing mortal danger, the heroes of the remark still find the strength for compassion and love.

“Night in Lisbon” (1962) - the tragic, soulful novel by Erich Maria Remarca about the Second World War war. This is not just a random meeting of two desperate people, one of whom is in vain trying to find two tickets for the steamer to America, and the other is looking for an interlocutor to pour out his soul. This is a real confession of a courageous person, whose share fell inconceivable in the severity of the test. This is the story of a whole generation of people who have encountered a war that fell into a grip of fascism. This is also a love story, before which even death recedes.