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Erich Maria Remarque | 244 pages | 09 Jun 1998 | Random House USA Inc | 9780449912430 | English | New York, United States The Night in Lisbon by

One of the refugees relates their story during the course of a single night in Lisbon in The story he recounts is mainly a romantic one, and also contains a lot of action with arrests, escapes and near-misses. The novel is realistic, Remarque was himself a German refugee although the novel is fictional and only loosely based on the experience of Remarque's friend, novelist Hans Habe , and provides insight into refugee life in Europe during the early days of the war. The book completed what was known as Remarque's "emigre trilogy" along with Flotsam and Arch of Triumph. The story takes place in the opening months of World War II. Josef Schwarz is a refugee who offers his visa and tickets for America to another refugee desperate to leave Lisbon. He does this in exchange for keeping him company throughout one night, a night in which he relates the story of his and his wife's frantic flight from Nazi Germany to Lisbon. In his review for the Times , Maxwell Geismar called it a "most brooding and thoughtful novel… it may not quite be a great novel, but it is surely one of the most absorbing and eloquent narratives of our period. Remarque's old following will find that it has a certain urgency without perhaps pausing to wonder whether it is as real as it is readable. With an expected release during October, , a film based on The Night in Lisbon is being produced. Ian Stokell is the author of the screenplay. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Little, Brown. Kirkus Reviews. I had absolutely no interest in the dynamics of war and I didn't care about the reasons behind any irrational decision of those insane leaders, at that time. But this story right here, even though technically fiction and a romantic novel has taught me more about t Absolutely amazing novel! But this story right here, even though technically fiction and a romantic novel has taught me more about the intricacies of war and the life of a refugee, than any history book read in school. I get goosebumps every time I think of Schwarz and Helen's story. Highly recommend this book! Jul 14, Charles Vella rated it it was amazing. Erich Remarque writes about good people in terrible times. Unfortunately, Europe between the World Wars provided him with plenty of material. If you haven't read it you certainly should. I've also read and , which are about soldiers trying to readjust in Germany after the war. The Night in Lisbon takes place a few years later, when the Nazis are running Erich Remarque writes about good people in terrible times. The Night in Lisbon takes place a few years later, when the Nazis are running Germany but before they've invaded . The reader never even finds out the real name of the main characters, which is appropriate because they are refugees and as such don't have names the way the rest of us take for granted. Schwarz is the name in a passport inherited from a dying refugee. He meets a stranger, another refugee, and tells him he can have Schwarz's two passages on a ship for the United States if he will sit with Schwarz all night. During that night Schwarz tells the stranger his story. Schwarz is afraid it will become distorted in his mind because it is so important to him. He believes that only by telling someone with some distance the story, and Schwarz's wife Helen, will live. We know from the beginning that Helen is dead, and somehow Remarque is still able to make her story viscerally real and incredibly sad. Their story is about Nazi brutality, but at a very personal level. It also brings out the stupidity that accompanies brutality more effectively than most works do. The Nazis have the reputation of incredible efficiency, which is to some extent earned, but I don't think as much as they get credit for. Brutality is more often accompanied by stupidity than higher level thinking. And if you arrest enough people randomly it can look like efficiency if you actually find a few people plotting against you. Not to mention that if you make the law vague enough, there will be plenty of people breaking it. A lesson for modern times. The Night in Lisbon is also about marriage and what is and isn't important in the grand scheme of things. Schwarz and Helen had a very mediocre relationship and marriage before the war. The war and circumstances of Helen's death give it a depth and meaning that it never would have achieved in normal times. Is this a happy ending? No, but they managed to get something positive out of life in desperate times. At the end, we find out what happens to everyone, kind of. No one lives happier ever after as far as we know. I won't tell you any more than that, but do suggest you read and find out for yourself. This is one of the best books I've ever read. Just don't expect to be whistling when you finish it. Jul 23, Shankar rated it really liked it. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I found this book in a most unexpected place In Bengaluru. Was pleasantly surprised to find it - and even more when I started to read it. The story is not very exciting but in the way it has been set and narrated it it makes for a gripping read. Set in the time of Nazis and Gestapo - and in the time of German occupation of France this tells the story of the hunted and also gives glimpses of how life was in the time of war. The narrator is looking to find a way to get to America with his family - I found this book in a most unexpected place In Bengaluru. The narrator is looking to find a way to get to America with his family - and has almost no money. His desperation is seen from the fact that in the weeks preceding he takes a decision to gamble in a casino to make enough to finance his and his family to America. And loses all of it. At this time he is offered a visa passport with a stamp that can be forged to change the name and a ticket to America. The narrator cannot believe this and is surprised to learn from Mr Schwarz the magnanimous that he just wants someone to spend a night with him in Lisbon. We learn later that he just wanted someone to hear his story - possibly as closure for all that he Schwarz and his wife Helen go through before the climactic end. This is really the story of the book. I liked the way the story was crafted and each emotion articulated. Despite the fact that I may never experience any of the events that happened at that time I could relate to his thoughts and reactions so described. My opinion is biased as I am becoming a sucker for historical fiction. Aug 06, Mike Coleman rated it liked it. Donald Trump should read this book. If you don't have them, your life is worthless and you'll be shipped back where you came from, to face certain death. Remarque wrote the book some 30 years after his classic All Quiet on the Western Front was published, and it flounders a bit at the beginning, but once I became accustomed to its style--it's basically a monolo Donald Trump should read this book. Remarque wrote the book some 30 years after his classic All Quiet on the Western Front was published, and it flounders a bit at the beginning, but once I became accustomed to its style--it's basically a monologue told by one refugee to another during one long night in Lisbon as they wait for a ship to take them to America--it gained momentum quickly. For the last 50 pages, I couldn't put it down. In one passage about an year-old refugee fleeing deportation back to Germany, one can only think of those children in America bearing the awful name "anchor babies," and what might become of them, should the crazed Trump be elected. I have read quite a few books of Remarque and this particular was one of the best for me. It is a great and a tragic love story which had something eternal in itself, something bigger than the lovers themselves. The book might seem as a standard love story from reviews but it is quit subtle and extraordinary story very closely related to the historical catastrophes and ideologies of that time. It was a compelling read. Totally worth of your time. May 30, Larry rated it it was amazing Shelves: portugal. I had only ever read All Quiet on the Western Front , twice in translation, once in the original German. It wasn't until I read The Night in Lisbon in translation, as my German has deteriorated from disuse that I understood what a truly great author Remarque was. A simple premise: two German refugees meet by chance in wartime Lisbon. One offers the other his boat tickets to America if he'll spend one night listening to his benefactor's story of exile throughout Europe. He tells a compelling stor I had only ever read All Quiet on the Western Front , twice in translation, once in the original German. He tells a compelling story of exile not just in a political sense, but in a moral and personal degree, even while the crimes which sent the characters fleeing are never touched on. The novel's theme is summarized near the end: And what do we really possess? Why do we make so much fuss about things which at best are merely lent us for a little while; and why all this talk about degrees of possession, when the illusory word "possess" means merely to embrace the air? Identity, nationality, home, love, and lovers, even our name: can any of these really be claimed as ours, especially in circumstances where abandoning or obfuscating any one of them can make the difference between death and survival? Can a new name and passport pass on not just the identity but the soul of its prior owner? And if one is submerged in a world where one really possesses nothing, how can you ever hope to re- adapt to a world in which the word "possess" has meaning? It isn't all philosophizing. There is plenty of butchery and courage and some truly nail- biting scenes. But it's the language which shines, filtered through the brilliance of Ralph Manheim, my favorite translator of post-war German fiction. If you're in the mood for an exciting, shocking, endlessly thought-provoking and deeply felt novel in which you'll want to lap up every word, I can't recommend this book enough. Jul 18, Lora Grigorova rated it really liked it. Where do memories live? What happens to them after we die? Do they continue floating as little pieces of our soul or are they buried along with our body under the ground? What does one do if he has lost everything but wants his story to live even beyond his life? He shares. Sharing at the edge of death, at the peak of WWII, at a moment when you just want to feel the presence of another human being amongst the beasts of the war. Two strangers meet and spent a whole night that brings them closer together than if they had spent their whole lives next to each other. Who are these men? Refugees from WWII. They are unique yet they are like the millions other refugees trying to escape from the long hands of Gestapo. Do we know their names? I am not sure they even know their birth names. They have changed personalities, passports, names, and faces so many times that now they just know they exist. Lets just call them Talker and Listener. Where are they? They are in Lisbon, two men, who at some point in their lives dreamt of boarding a ship to the land of dreams — America. What are they talking about? Life, love, war, betrayal, hope, deceit, death. Why is this novel important? Because it tells the life story of an ordinary man, one of the many enemies of the Reich, who had to flee Europe at the edge of the war. It could have been anyone of these poor souls, who attempted to oppose Hitler and his army of blind believers. And yes, it happens over a night. Apr 26, Greg rated it it was amazing Shelves: adventure , history. A fantastic book--gripping drama, a superb love story, a tight narrative, and all the harrowing escapes and cat-and-mouse mystery you could ask for. Remarque, best known for the seminal World War I novel All Quiet on the Western Front read it if you haven't turns his narrative powers loose on the pre-war tension of and in Europe-China and Japan were already at war and the travails of refugees escaping the Nazis. It's all very topical, given the bureaucratic nightmares modern immigran A fantastic book--gripping drama, a superb love story, a tight narrative, and all the harrowing escapes and cat-and-mouse mystery you could ask for. It's all very topical, given the bureaucratic nightmares modern immigrants from war zones are encountering as they risk their lives to reach Europe and the United States in , and this look back at another era shows how little things have changed. Governments are no more likely to accommodate those without exhaustive documentation today than they were back then, for the exact same reasons. You aren't a person without papers, but nobody's going to give you papers, either the "good" nations or the "bad" ones, if you try to do things the "right" way. The protagonist you never know his real name notes that the only time he's able to get what he wants is when he kills someone or travels in the guise of a killer the Gestapo. There's no end to the horrors humans are willing to inflict on each other, in that era or this. Jul 12, Nikolay Genchev rated it really liked it. Left me speechless. Beautiful and poetic use of language by Remarque. I never thought the German language could be so romantic until I saw how Remarque plays with imagery and makes you feel as if you're the one who's constantly running for his life. The conversations between Schwarz and Helen were some of the most heartfelt I've ever read and their entire story just has the power to make a grown man tear up. Haven't felt this anxious while reading a book in a long time and then the thing with He Left me speechless. Haven't felt this anxious while reading a book in a long time and then the thing with Helen.. I guess I should have seen it coming, how often does a book based around WWII have a truly happy ending? May 25, Karen rated it really liked it Shelves: travel-the-world. I'm not really sure how to review this book. The story takes place during the summer before September Lisbon becomes the portal to freedom in America, as long as the ships keep sailing. An unnamed character becomes the sounding board for Schwartz the name on his papers, not his real name. Schwartz tells his story, from the time of his incarceration in the concentration camp, to the day we meet him in Lisbon. Aug 29, Kirila rated it really liked it. Historical background combined with human stories about love and survival, brilliantly written. What more can you want? The Night in Lisbon is about a German jew, who struggles between his instinct for survival and the love for his wife. Feb 20, Jaccalyn rated it it was amazing. This is one of those books that is a hidden treasure I had never heard of it before and picked it up at my local library on the for sale rack for 50 cents Oct 14, Philip rated it liked it Shelves: first-person , war-fiction , s , fiction , europe , world-war-ll. This was one of Remarque's final books, published in a full 33 years after his most famous work, All Quiet on the Western Front. Unlike Quiet, it is not truly a war story but more a just-before-the-war story, telling the tales of several "good Germans" and probable Jews, although he never specifically says trying to escape first Germany and then Europe altogether as the Nazi poison spread across the continent. Unfortunately, I found the book just too "European" for me - too much sitting ar This was one of Remarque's final books, published in a full 33 years after his most famous work, All Quiet on the Western Front. Unfortunately, I found the book just too "European" for me - too much sitting around discussing the meaning of life over coffee or cognac, compared to too little real action or plot. They believed what the automaton was screaming at them; in a strange state of hypnosis, they applauded this disembodied voice as if it were a human being. The scene struck me as typical of the sinister, demonic mob spirit of our times, of all the frightened, hysterical crowds who follow slogans. It makes no difference whether the slogans come from the right or the left, as long as they relieve the masses of the hard work of thinking and the need to take responsibility Oct 19, Thomas rated it it was amazing. An amazingly good book. A definite page turner. Jan 02, Arsen Zahray rated it really liked it. The book is definitely a worthwhile read, with nice and realistic characters. While reading it my main thought was not plot related, but this: 1 lots of people died because of visa policies of various countries, which is good for nothing but making lives of people difficult 2 if something like this would happen today, main characters wouldn't have a chance, with all the biometric passports etc etc. And don't get started about "this time is different". There's a book with that name, and the ans The book is definitely a worthwhile read, with nice and realistic characters. There's a book with that name, and the answer is usually "it's not" Jun 20, Sabina Latifova rated it it was amazing. Shouldn't memory be able to do that? It must. A miracle is never perfect when it happens; there are always little disappointments. But once it's gone for good and nothing can change it, memory could make it perfect, and then it would never change. If I can just call it to life now, won't it always stay the same? Won't it stay with me as long as I live? Apr 21, Lyubomira Petrova rated it it was amazing. A great book by a great author. I am deeply in love with the way Remarque describes human relationship and feelings. Touching and inspiring. Part meditation on the refugee experience, part love story, part wartime thriller. For me, this novel works like a sequel to Remarque's gripping pre-war thriller, Arch of Triumph. The Night in Lisbon is a conversational novel between two stranded German exiles whose themes are defeat, betrayal and survival. Remarque wrote the great - possibly the greatest - anti-war novel, All Quiet on the Western Front. The Night in Lisbon - Wikipedia

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Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date. For a better shopping experience, please upgrade now. Javascript is not enabled in your browser. Enabling JavaScript in your browser will allow you to experience all the features of our site. Learn how to enable JavaScript on your browser. NOOK Book. History and fate collide as the Nazis rise to power in The Night in Lisbon, a classic tale of survival from the renowned author of All Quiet on the Western Front. With the world slowly sliding into war, it is crucial that enemies of the Reich flee Europe at once. But so many routes are closed, and so much money is needed. Then one night in Lisbon, as a poor young refugee gazes hungrily at a boat bound for America, a stranger approaches him with two tickets and a story to tell. It is a harrowing tale of bravery and butchery, daring and death, in which the price of love is beyond measure and the legacy of evil is infinite. As the refugee listens spellbound to the desperate teller, in a matter of hours the two form a unique and unshakable bond—one that will last all their lives. He is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank, a man who can bend language to his will. Whether he writes of men or of inanimate nature, his touch is sensitive, firm, and sure. Through the hazardous years following the war he worked at many occupations: schoolteacher, small-town drama critic, race-car driver, editor of a sports magazine. A brilliant success, selling more than a million copies, it was the first of many literary triumphs. When the Nazis came to power, Remarque left Germany for Switzerland. He rejected all attempts to persuade him to return, and as a result he lost his German citizenship, his books were burned, and his films banned. He went to the United States in and became a citizen in He later lived in Switzerland with his second wife, the actress Paulette Goddard. He died in September Edward Rutherfurd. Bernice L. The King at the Edge of the World. Arthur Phillips. True History of the Kelly Gang. The Convert. Stefan Hertmans. The Glass Palace. Amitav Ghosh. Shadow Country. Peter Matthiessen. The Hours Count. Jillian Cantor. Stephanie Scott. The Royal Governess. Wendy Holden. The Air You Breathe. Frances de Pontes Peebles. The Patriots. Sana Krasikov. The Flight Portfolio. Julie Orringer. Sweet Thunder. Margot: a Novel. A Long Way from Home. Long Man. Apeirogon: A Novel. Get some streaming picks. A husband and wife refugee couple seek to outrun the German army blitzkrieg advance across Europe at the start of World War Two and escape on a ship bound for America. Looking for something to watch? Choose an adventure below and discover your next favorite movie or TV show. Visit our What to Watch page. Sign In. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Full Cast and Crew. Release Dates. Official Sites. Company Credits.

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Jennifer Ryan. Atomic Love. Jennie Fields. The Volunteer. Salvatore Scibona. Edward Rutherfurd. Bernice L. The King at the Edge of the World. Arthur Phillips. True History of the Kelly Gang. The Convert. Stefan Hertmans. The Glass Palace. Amitav Ghosh. Shadow Country. Peter Matthiessen. The Hours Count. Jillian Cantor. Stephanie Scott. The Royal Governess. Wendy Holden. The Air You Breathe. Frances de Pontes Peebles. The Patriots. Sana Krasikov. The Flight Portfolio. Julie Orringer. Sweet Thunder. Margot: a Novel. A Long Way from Home. Long Man. Apeirogon: A Novel. Colum McCann. Allan Gurganus. Carry Me. Peter Behrens. David R. A Thread of Grace. Mary Doria Russell. The Last Days of Night. Schwarz knows that if he crawled out of prison at night he would be shot. By now he has learned all of the tricks of survival. He knows, for instance, that in occupied Paris or occupied anywhere to be seen alone invites suspicion; to be seen with a woman disarms it. That to brandish a fake passport and yell at an irresolute border patrol will get a person across the border. That a foolish modesty is the hobgoblin of naive refugees. That it pays to confront the authorities with a clean-shaven face. By pretending to be an electrician hired to inspect the wiring, Schwarz bluffs his way into the camp in which his wife is being held. And for all its derring-do, The Night in Lisbon betrays Remarque's intimacy with his subject, if not his full control. The old Viennese the original donor, the first Schwarz has smuggled a couple of drawings by Ingres across the border by putting them into hideous frames and palming them off as sketches of his old parents. The fiction is as authentic as the Ingres are. So is the refugee from Frankfurt who makes his living by peddling rosaries and pictures of saints. And for all its too frequent flippancy, the book contains genuine glimpses into the heart of darkness. A friend of Schwarz's, who has watched a Jew being arrested and beaten, tries to come to his help by knocking the SS monster unconscious and telling the Jew to run. Instead, the Jew curses his would-be liberator. Now, he tells the man, he is truly lost; the beating will simply fuel the Nazi's wrath. Sobbing, the Jew goes for water to revive the SS official, who can now lead him to his slaughter. Actions like these may grate on people who bristle at all the talk about the Jews' docility under pressure, but Remarque knew better. Had Chekhov been his contemporary, he would have bought the rights to the story. Cite this article Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography. October 17, Retrieved October 17, from Encyclopedia. Then, copy and paste the text into your bibliography or works cited list. Because each style has its own formatting nuances that evolve over time and not all information is available for every reference entry or article, Encyclopedia. Learn more about citation styles Citation styles Encyclopedia. More From encyclopedia. Known until the…. You Might Also Like Friedrich. Leitner, Isabella. Stones from the River. Badenheim Schindler's List. The Night God Screamed. The Night Brings Charlie. The Night and the Moment. The Night After Halloween.

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