Arco de triunfo

1938, Paris. Ludwig Fresenburg was a chief surgeon at a German hospital. But, after escaping from the Nazis and becoming a political refugee in Paris, he now calls himself Ravic and lives as badly as he can, with terrible working conditions and surrounded by alcohol and romantic relationships without any future... Until he meets Jeanne. Because this novel is, above all, a love novel. Love that could be total, that could be pure, but that is incomplete and turbulent. Love and also revenge, which Ravic manages to satisfy. Jeanne Madou gives him love, and Haake, the executioner, the instrument with which the Gestapo cuts off his life and his career, the chance to take revenge. The rest is the uncertain and startled life of the man without a name, without origin and without destination; Except for one, the cruelest: to be returned to the Nazi horror from which he fled. Because, although the symbol of France, the Arc de Triomphe, sinks in the darkness of war, and although Ravic faces a black future, he is emotionally ready to survive. With Arc de Triomphe, Erich Maria Remarque shows us again one of his favorite themes: the powerless and alienated individuals who find the inner strength for survival under totalitarian oppression. And this always against the backdrop of the war between reality and idealism, with the harshness and emotional language that characterize the author of the acclaimed and indispensable work Without novelty on the front.