Эрих Мария Ремарк

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you about one of my favourite writers. His life is

very bright and interesting. Remarque is so talented, and he wrote lots of works filled with emotions and serious feelings

June 22, 1898 in a working-class family in the German

city of Osnabruck. He later took the middle name Maria in honor of his mother of his mother. At the age of sixteen or seventeen he also made his first attempts at writing: essays, poems, and the beginnings of a novel that was finished later and published in 1920 as The Dream Room (Die Traumbude).

the age of eighteen.
On 12 June, 1917 he

was transferred to the Western Front. On 31 July he was wounded by shrapnel in the left leg, right arm and neck, and repatriated to an army hospital in Germany, where he spent the rest of the war. In his last carrier, participation in wars activity, played a grand role. Also he described relationships of people on the war, about friendship, and after wars years, he told about how war leaved her imprint on life of people.

Front (Im Westen nichts Neues) was written in a few

months in 1927, is often described as the most wide-spread book of the world after the Bible. But Remarque was not immediately able to find a publisher. The novel, published in 1929, described the utter cruelty of the war from the perspective of a young soldier. A number of similar works followed; in simple, emotive language they described wartime and the postwar years. In 1931, after finishing 'The Road Back. In 1933, the Nazis banned and burned Remarque's works. Remarque's next novel, Three Comrades (Drei Kameraden) spans the years from the inflation of 1923 to the end of the decade.

following notes: strong powers of observation, unvarnished realism, skepticism, pessimism,

connected with a subliminal social engagement.

America he met some publishers and filmproducers. Especially Joseph Kennedy,

then movie theater owner and respected producer, father of the later president of the USA, helped him to gain a foothold.
Two years later he entered USA official and got the nationality in 1947.
He married the Hollywood actress Paulette Goddard in 1958 and they remained married until his death in the hospital at Locarno on 25 September 1970 at the age of 72. He is interred in the Ronco cemetery in Ronco, Ticino, Switzerland after a Catholic funeral, where Goddard is also interred.
Erich Maria Remarque was always weighed with a little bitterness, despite the great success and all the money he was able to earn.

in honor of his wife.

Erich Paul Remark

was born in a working-class family.

His most famous book Three Comrades.

Questions for discussion: Did you know him earlier? Have you read any books of Remarque? What do you think about them? Do you like them or not? May be you have seen a screen version of his works?

We told you about his life and history. I think

that you are interested in it, and in future you would like to read some of his books.

Thank you!

Sources of information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Maria_Remarque;
http://www.cyranos.ch/litrem-e.htm.