Arch of Triumph

The novel "Arch of Triumph" was written by the well-known German writer E.M. Remarque (1898–1970). The author tells of the tragic fate of a talented German surgeon who fled Nazi Germany to escape persecution. Remarque with great artistry analyses the hero's complex inner world. In this novel, the theme of the struggle against fascism resounds with tremendous force — yet it is the struggle of a lone individual, not an organized political movement.

"Arch of Triumph" is the most beautiful of European novels of the 20th century. A novel about love, war, and death.

It is the saddest of European novels of the 20th century. A novel about a woman who has nothing but pitiful fleeting victories — and about a man who has grown as accustomed to fear, hatred, and hopelessness as to his own second self.

This is a novel about a passion that can and must end only in tragedy.