作者: 埃里希·马里亚·雷马克 Erich Maria Remarque
凯旋门(，马克文集)仁德」雷马克 著，朱雯译。上海译文出版社1993年n月版。40万 字。9.20元。长篇小说。主人公拉维克因遭受纳粹 迫害而逃亡法国。一天，他在塞纳河的一座桥上遇到 一个漂亮女子琼，两人因境遇相同而彼此相爱。不 久，拉维克在街头偶然发现当年刑讯他并逼死他妻 子的纳粹头目哈克。为报仇雪恨，拉维克忍痛离开 琼，在一个夜晚将哈克编到森林里并杀死了他。小说 叙述了德国流亡者在异国他乡的悲渗遭遇，控诉了 法西斯对无辜人民的迫害。作者埃里希·马里亚· 雷马克(1898一1970)是德国现代小说家和剧作家。 (装胜利)
Arch of Triumph (German: Arc de Triomphe) is a 1945 novel by Erich Maria Remarque. In it, he writes about stateless refugees' life in Paris before World War II.
Plot summary
It is 1938, and, despite having no permission to perform surgery, Ravic, a very accomplished German surgeon and a stateless refugee living in Paris, has been ghost-operating on patients for two years on the behalf of two less skillful French physicians.
Unwilling to return to Nazi Germany which stripped him of his citizenship, and unable to legally exist anywhere else in pre-war western Europe, Ravic manages to hang on. He is one of many displaced persons without passports or any other documents, who live under a constant threat of being captured and deported from one country to the next, and back again (see Remarque's earlier novel Flotsam for an expansive treatment of this theme).
Though Ravic has given up on the possibility of love, life has a curious way of taking a turn for the romantic, even during the worst of times, as he cautiously befriends an actress.
Ravic's character makes a brief appearance in Remarque's last novel, Shadows in Paradise.
The novel has been made into films twice: Arch of Triumph (1948 film) and Arch of Triumph (1985 film). |