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Spark of Life

Erich Maria Remarque (James Stern)
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In Spark of Life, a powerful classic from the renowned author of All Quiet on the Western Front, one man’s dream of freedom inspires a valiant resistance against the Nazi war machine. For ten years, 5..., 509 has been a political prisoner in a German concentration camp, persevering in the most hellish conditions. Deathly weak, he still has his wits about him and he senses that the end of the war is near. If he and the other living corpses in his barracks can hold on for liberation—or force their own—then their suffering will not have been in vain. Now the SS who run the camp are ratcheting up the terror. But their expectations are jaded and their defenses are down. It is possible that the courageous yet terribly weak prisoners have just enough left in them to resist. And if they die fighting, they will die on their own terms, cheating the Nazis out of their devil’s contract. “The world has a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. 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.”— The New York Times Book Review
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  • Počet strán: 424 strán
  • ISBN13:9780449912515
  • Ďalšie vydania: Iskra života

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Román Iskra života z roku 1952, ktorý vychádza prvý raz v slovenskom preklade, patrí k Remarquovým najsilnejším protivojnovým dielam. Jeho humanistické posolstvo je mimoriadne aktuálne aj v dnešnom konfliktmi zmietanom svete. Román zachytáva príbehy väzňov a ich strážcov vo fiktívnom koncentračnom tábore Mellern, presnejšie v jeho časti zvanej Malý tábor, kam premiestňovali tých, čo už neboli schopní pracovať. Skupina dvanástich „veteránov“ tam dožíva v neľudských podmienkach, pri živote ich drží už len iskierka nádeje, že toto peklo sa čoskoro skončí.

In Spark of Life, a powerful classic from the renowned author of All Quiet on the Western Front, one man’s dream of freedom inspires a valiant resistance against the Nazi war machine.
 
For ten years, 509 has been a political prisoner in a German concentration camp, persevering in the most hellish conditions. Deathly weak, he still has his wits about him and he senses that the end of the war is near. If he and the other living corpses in his barracks can hold on for liberation—or force their own—then their suffering will not have been in vain.
 
Now the SS who run the camp are ratcheting up the terror. But their expectations are jaded and their defenses are down. It is possible that the courageous yet terribly weak prisoners have just enough left in them to resist. And if they die fighting, they will die on their own terms, cheating the Nazis out of their devil’s contract.
 
“The world has a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. 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.”— The New York Times Book Review