The collection includes articles and essays from various years, including 'On the Style of Our Time,' 'Advertising and Salespeople,' 'The Foundations of Decadence,' and the equally serious and instructive 'Violet Dream,' 'On Mixing Fine Spirits,' and 'Flirting with Karl.' In them, Remarque speaks impartially about politics, discusses literature, art, writing, auto racing, and much more.
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.…
