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Three Comrades
By : by Erich Maria Remarque, Arthur Wesley Wheen (Translator)
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Original Title : Drei Kameraden
ISBN : 0449912426 (ISBN13: 9780449912423)
Edition Language : English
Series : Robert Lohkamp, Gottfried Lenz, Otto Köster
Paperback, 496 pages
Published January 27th 1998 by Random House Trade Paperbacks (first published 1936)
Characters : Berlin, 1928 (Germany)
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Description : The year is 1928. On the outskirts of a large German city, three young men are earning a thin and precarious living. Fully armed young storm troopers swagger in the streets. Restlessness, poverty, and violence are everywhere. For these three, friendship is the only refuge from the chaos around them. Then the youngest of them falls in love, and brings into the group a young The year is 1928. On the outskirts of a large German city, three young men are earning a thin and precarious living. Fully armed young storm troopers swagger in the streets. Restlessness, poverty, and violence are everywhere. For these three, friendship is the only refuge from the chaos around them. Then the youngest of them falls in love, and brings into the group a young woman who will become a comrade as well, as they are all tested in ways they can never have imagined. . . .Written with the same overwhelming simplicity and directness that made All Quiet on the Western Front a classic, Three Comrades portrays the greatness of the human spirit, manifested through characters who must find the inner resources to live in a world they did not make, but must endure.
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REVIEWS :Youth is an age of magic: you’re full of pep, zest, enthusiasm, hopes, friendship… love.She began to speak, but soon I no longer heard what she was saying. I heard only her voice, and as I sat there on the table in the dark hall, between the boar's head and the kitchen with the haricot beans, a door seemed to open and a wave of warmth and light came in, soothing and bright, full of dreams and desire and youth. I propped my feet against the table, I rested my head in my hand, I looked at the What a beautiful love story! Described in the inter-war with, in the background, crisis and rising unemployment. Nazism announced back cover watermark appears only towards the end of the book.It is well written, it's fun and it holds up the whole time, and that's saying something since the three friends, comrades, are crazy about cars and keep a garage.A great discovery. Drei Kameraden = Three Comrades: A Novel of Germany Between the Wars, Erich Maria RemarqueA love story centered around the lives of three young German soldiers in the years following World War I. Their close friendship is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman who is dying of tuberculosis. Three Comrades is a novel first published in 1936 by the German author Erich Maria Remarque. It is written in first person by the main character Robert Lohkamp, whose somewhat disillusioned With blinded eyes I stared at the sky, this grey, endless sky of a crazy god, who made life and death for his amusement.I think my grandmother would've liked Three Comrades. She may have read it. She passed in 2003 and I often miss her. The ranks of my rogues gallery of family contained only one reader and Stella Short was that and certainly something else. I'd like to think she died with a book in her lap. Three Comrades is a melodrama about survivors of the Great War discovering the extent of "Es ist besser, zu sterben, wenn man noch leben möchte, als zu sterben und man möchte auch sterben." (it's better to die while you still want to live, than to die and want to die) The novel is called Three Comrades but there were actually 4 of them - Robert Lohkamp, Otto Köster, Gottfried Lenz and Patrice Hollmann whom they meet in the very beginning of the novel and who became an essential part of it. And there were also other people who weren't formally "comrades" but they could be called so Read this book twice and would read it over and over again. Definitely a staple in my library. I have the Russian edition, I am not sure how the english one reads but it is an absolutely amazing read that touches on so many topics so many of us can relate to.. the lost generation, the destruction brought about by the war and the dispersed populace living or scrambling to make a living in many countries. that shamed german diaspora that's not really german in a sense that they did not support This novel is the 2nd Greatest book I've read, 2nd only to another Remarque classic, All Quiet On the Western Front. I like to think of myself as the full-blooded manliest man there is (its true), but I don't feel even an ounce of shame to admit that this is the very first time I cried while reading a book, and every time i re-read it (I almost memorized the whole novel after reading countless times), it never fails to bring a drop of tear on my eye. This is the BEST DAMN Romantic I don’t believe I’ve ever read a novel in which so much alcohol is consumed!Forgive me that inane opening line – the problem is that my overall reaction is difficult to put into words and I was attempting to be light and temporarily put off writing of how devastated I was upon finishing this book. Still, it is not untrue, there is a lot of drinking and times I could have used a stiff one myself. The depiction of poverty, unemployment, despair and overall disillusionment in Germany following WWI The music enchanted the air. It was like the south wind, like a warm night, like swelling sails beneath the stars, completely and utterly unreal... It made everything spacious and colourful, the dark stream of life seemed pulsing in it; there were no burdens any more, no limits; there existed only glory and melody and love, so that one simply could not realize that, at the same time as this music was, outside there ruled poverty and torment and despair.Three Comrades by Erich Marie Remarque the A wonderful finish to Erich Maria Remarque's trilogy of "All Quiet on the Western Front". All three books deal with a different group of soldiers but the mention of some names present in the other books but not related to this story. The first two books are more closely dealing with the war and aftermath but "There Comrades" has a storyline less war related but more in line of the poverty all around Germany and these men making due. I had seen the 1938 movie years ago but not until I started to Great books of great length always seem to fulfill their destiny at the end. There is a journey to be had and a certain number of pages is required to complete the adventure. Sometimes that number is small and sometimes that number seems to be insurmountable, but at the end, if the book is great, that number seems perfect.Thee Comrades simply attempts to be too many things. It attempts to define a type of friendship that is forged out of horrific experiences, it attempts to describe the struggle This book was recommended to me by one of my best guy friends, as his favourite book. It was my first novel from remarque, but since I have read amny, and this still remains my favourite. I don't understand why Arch of Triumph is the more praised or famous, when Three Comrades is so pure, maybe that isn't the word, the truths and facts of life he tells us about are gripping in his simple presentation.I love war novels, and this one is one of the best ones I have read, what I particularly love There definitely are people who are fans of Remarque, but suppose that even they can admit the similarity of all his works. Just after getting presented to all characters it was quite clear what kind of the end the book will have. It is clearly Remarque's style, books you will find very interesting when you are a little bit depressed and maybe desperate yourself. As for me - for some time Remarque is closed theme for me, maybe after a while (at least some years) I will return to him to look on One of the best book I have ever read. It's impossible to describe the feelings when i had finished the book. This book is absolutely beyond any rating..
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