Black obelisk

“Black Obelisk” (1956) is the famous Remarck’s novel, largely autobiographical.
Complex years after the First World War, a provincial German town, the hero works in the company for the sale of tombstones ... But there is not enough money, monstrous inflation in the country , and he works as a game on the organ in the chapel at the hospital. He meets his love there, in the psychiatric department ...
“Black Obelisk” - on the one hand, a novel about the great power of love that can cure even the mentally ill, on the other hand - philosophical thoughts about God, religion, meaning of life, and Finally, with the third - a bright historical picture of the era, where an approaching fascism declares itself more and more noticeably