'If you keep sauerkraut and caviar in the same shop, the sauerkraut won't smell like caviar, but the caviar will always smell like sauerkraut.'

In his novel 'The Black Obelisk' (1956), Erich Maria Remarque brilliantly recreated the atmosphere of Germany in the 1920s. The time between the two world wars... The time of the birth of fascism... A time that the writer designated by 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 makes tombstones, tries to find an answer to the question of the meaning of human existence. And in the era of 'intertemporality,' this is especially difficult.