Far from all Remarque admirers know that, in addition to the long prose that brought him worldwide fame, he also masterfully wrote short stories. It was with these short stories that Remarque's literary career began, and it is in them that the ideas and brilliant style of the future outstanding writer can be discerned. This collection presents early stories about love and loss, profound emotions, and the impossibility of true understanding between people.
Author: Erich Maria Remarque
Erich Maria Remarque (German: Erich Maria Remarque, born Erich Paul Remark) was one of the best-known and most widely read German writers of the twentieth century.
He was born on 22 June 1898 in Osnabrück. He was the second of five children of the bookbinder Peter Franz Remarque (1867–1954) and Anna Maria Remarque, née Stallknecht (1871–1917). In his youth, Remarque was fascinated by the works of Stefan Zweig, Thomas Mann, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Marcel Proust, and Johann Goethe.
In 1904 he entered a church school, and in 1915 a Catholic teachers’ seminary.…
