The Black Obelisk

In the novel "The Black Obelisk" (1956), Erich Maria Remarque brilliantly recreated the atmosphere of 1920s Germany. The time between the two world wars…

The time of the rise of fascism… The time that the writer signified with the title of another of his novels – "A Time to Live and a Time to Die"… 

The main character, an employee at a company that manufactures tombstones, tries to find an answer to the question of the meaning of human existence. And in the era of "interim time," this is especially difficult…