Flotsam (novel)
Love thy neighbor is a novel by German author Erich Maria Remarque.
Content
The novel describes the interwoven destinies of three emigrants who left Germany at the time of National Socialism and find pictures without identification papers in any European country. First, learn the young Ludwig Kern, son of a Jewish denounced perfume manufacturer, and the pithy Josef Steiner in Vienna after the eviction of an emigrant refuge know. The authorities banned from the country, and the paths of the two men split up again for the time being. In Prague core met for the last time his now completely broken father and falls in love with the unaccompanied Ruth Holland. The couple will be separated into the Czech Republic, but held in Vienna each other again. Together they flee further into Switzerland, where one against the emigrants, however, going on particularly hard and Ruth soon fell seriously ill. Only in Paris, their situation seems to relax a bit. Steiner meets there some time later also a core and helps to find a job at the Pavilion structure of the world exhibition. With his fake Austrian passport Steiner finally goes back to Germany to say goodbye to his moribund woman. After her death, he is from the Gestapo man Steinbrenner, who had tortured him before his escape, dissipated. Still in the hospital Steiner falls from a window and tearing Steinbrenner with the death. Holland and core get his estate and therefore the possibility, gene Mexico to leave Europe.
Creation, spending and adaptation
Remarque began work on the novel in April 1938, shortly after his marriage with Jutta Ilse Zambona in exile in Switzerland, St. Moritz and carried them off in Porto Ronco. In February 1939, the first draft was finished. Remarque traveled this year, France and the United States where he settled down in September. Love your neighbor appeared from July to September 1939 titled Flotsam as a preprint of the magazine Collier's Weekly. The print edition of the revised text was followed in March 1941 and was published by Little, Brown and Company. The German -language edition was published in September 1941; it was published by the exile publishing Bermann Fischer in Stockholm. Also in 1941, the novel was made into a film directed by John Cromwell, titled So Ends Our Night. The role of Josef Steiner played Fredric March. 1953, the novel was finally published in Germany.
Expenditure ( selection)
- Erich Maria Remarque: Love thy neighbor. Kommentarii, slovar L. M. Buzinovoj. Izd. Karo, Sankt- Petersburg 2011, ISBN 978-5-9925-0650-1.
- Erich Maria Remarque: Love thy neighbor. With an afterword by Tilman Westphalen. Kiepenheuer and Malevich, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-462-02730-1.
Literature (selection )
- Hans Wagener: Understanding Erich Maria Remarque. Univ. of South Carolina Press, Columbia, SC, 1991, ISBN 9780872497405, pp. 53-59 ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).