Erich Maria Remarque - Haven Has No Favorites - Nebo nema miljenike

"Man is great in his extremes. In art, love, hate, egoism, even sacrifice - but what the world lacks the most is a certain middle goodness."

It was written by one of the best writers of his time, Erich Maria Remarque in the novel "Love Your Neighbor".

Much persecuted, and even more readable, easy to express, and the sharpness of his pen did not touch the heart and soul of anyone.

The German writer, whose real name is Erich Paul Remark, was born on June 22, 1898 in Osnabrück into a working class family.

At the age of 18, he went to the front in the First World War, where he was soon wounded. To survive, he worked many jobs, including the job of librarian, businessman, teacher, journalist and publisher.

He published his first novel "Nothing New in the West" in 1929 under the name Erich Maria Remarque. In the novel, he describes the cruelty of the war viewed from the perspective of a nineteen-year-old soldier. This book describes war through a completely different dimension - fraud and manipulation - and opens a different view of human impotence and the human psyche.

Remarque's popularity began to grow rapidly, and in the following works, "Return", "Three War Friends", "Triumphal Arch", "Heaven Doesn't Know About Favorites", "Night in Lisbon" ... most often describes the war and post-war years.

Reading Remarque's books, one gets the impression that each one is autobiographical, given his great skill in describing different situations. By writing style understandable to everyone, and at the same time opening many "difficult" questions, he shows exceptional writing power. This literary great and favorite of readers clearly describes every situation down to the smallest detail. In 1933, the Nazi regime banned and burned Remarque's books and launched a propaganda campaign claiming that it was descended from French Jews and that the surname Remarque was in fact read Kramer backwards. Despite the fact that it has never been proven, this information also appears in some of Remarque's recent biographies.

Remarque moved to Switzerland in 1931, and in 1939 he emigrated to the United States. Erich Maria Remarque died on September 25, 1970, at the age of 72 in Locarno, Switzerland.

Heaven has no favorites is a novel about love that is not everyday and that does not know the rules. Lillian is on her deathbed, but before she dies she wants to see as much as possible and live as much as possible. He does not want to end his life between the four walls of the hospital, but to travel all over Europe, to visit Paris, Venice ... Lillian is beautiful and charismatic and she likes Clerfe, a car race driver. He, like her, lives for the moment, and that unites them ...

His quotes we love:

Big things never comfort, but always only small, insignificant ones. Man is stronger than destiny until he surrenders. Precisely because it cannot be believed, happiness is always new and victorious. No one can be as foreign to you as the man you once loved.

"Čovek je veliki u svojim krajnostima. U umetnosti, ljubavi, mržnji, egoizmu, čak i u žrtvovanju - ali ono što svetu najviše nedostaje to je izvesna srednja dobrota."

Napisao je to jedan od najboljih književnika svog doba, Erih Marija Remark u romanu "Ljubi bližnjeg svog".

Mnogo progonjen, a još više čitan, jednostavan u izražavanju, a njegova oštrina pera malo kome nije dotakla srce i dušu.

Nemački književnik, čije je pravo ime Erih Paul Remark, rođen je 22. juna 1898. godine u Osnabriku u radničkoj porodici.

Sa 18 godina otišao je na front u Prvom svetskom ratu, gde je ubrzo i ranjen. Da bi preživeo, radio je mnoge poslove, uključujući i posao bibliotekara, poslovnog čoveka, učitelja, novinara i izdavača.

Prvi roman "Na zapadu ništa novo" objavio je 1929. godine pod imenom Erih Marija Remark. U romanu opisuje surovost rata posmatranu iz perspektive devetnaestogodišnjeg vojnika. Ta knjiga opisuje rat kroz sasvim drugu dimenziju - prevare i manipulisanje- i otvara drugi pogled na ljudsku nemoć i ljudsku psihu.

Remarkova popularnost naglo počinje da raste, a u on u sledećim delima "Povratak", "Tri ratna druga", “Trijumfalna kapija", "Nebo nema miljenike", "Noć u Lisabonu"... najčešće opisuje ratne i poratne godine.

Čitajući Remarkove knjige, stiče se utisak da mu je svaka autobiografska, s obzirom na njegovu veliku veštinu opisa različitih situacija. Stilom pisanja razumljivim svakome, a u isto vreme otvarajući mnoga "teška" pitanja, pokazuje izuzetnu spisateljsku moć.

Ovaj književni velikan i miljenik čitalaca do najsitnijih detalja jasno opisuje svaku situaciju.

Godine 1933. nacistički režim zabranjuje i spaljuje Remarkove knjige i pokreće propagandnu kampanju tvrdeći da vuče poreklo od francuskih Jevreja i da je prezime Remark u stvari Kramer čitano unazad. Uprkos tome što nikad nije dokazana, ta informacija se pojavljuje i u nekim novijim Remarkovim biografijama.

Remark se 1931. preselio u Švajcarsku, a 1939. godine emigrirao je u SAD.  Erih Marija Remark je umro 25. septembra 1970. godine u 72. godini u Lokarnu u Švajcarskoj.

Nebo nema miljenike je roman o ljubavi koja nije svakodnevna i koja ne poznaje pravila.
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Remarkovi citati koje volimo:

Velike stvari nikad ne teše, nego uvek samo male, beznačajne.

Čovek je jači od sudbine sve dotle dok se ne preda.

Baš zato što se u nju ne može verovati, sreća je stalno nova i pobedonosna.

Niko ti ne može biti stran kao čovek kojeg si nekad voleo.