The Night in Lisbon - Erich Maria Remarque

Posted : 3 years, 2 months ago at Oct 15 14:54

There are any number of writers whose entire cannon is overlooked save for a single ‘classic’ work. Burgess with ‘A Clockwork Orange’ and Heller with “Catch-22” being notable examples. Even more unfortunate, are those writers whose most famous novel eclipses their other output, yet fails to lodge their name in our collective cultural conscience. Erich Maria Remarque is one such writer. Who wrote, “All Quiet on the Western Front” is a far more difficult quiz question than it deserves to be. So, having seen a number of his other books on amazon with glowing reviews I decided to take the plunge with ‘The Night in Lisbon’, one of his later novels. The story starts, as you might expect, in Lisbon, Portugal. It is 1942 and a desperate ref...Read more

Rating : 8/10