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Title	:	Spark of Life: A Novel of Resistance
Author	:	Erich Maria Remarque
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 424 pages
Published	:	April 1st 2014 by Random House Trade Paperbacks (first published 1952)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Historical. Historical Fiction. War. European Literature. German Literature. World War II. Holocaust

Spark of Life: A Novel of Resistance Paperback | Pages: 424 pages

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SPARK OF LIFE

509 is a political prisoner in a German concentration camp. For ten years, he has persevered 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.

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Original Title:	Der Funke Leben
ISBN:	0449912515 (ISBN13: 9780449912515)
Edition Language:	English

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Unlike other novels by Erich Maria Remarque, the end of this novel strangely almost feels like a happy end. But on second thought, it is as always a bitter sweet ending. So what is different? Why is the reader so relieved?Probably because he/she is counting the pages bringing to the last blank pages where there would be no more of this insanity, unbelievable cruelty, this monstrousness out of human understanding. And when it finally comes, with the Allies taking the camp over, the reader, like

The first published post-WWII Holocaust novel. After its publication there was a great deal of criticism of Remarque for having written a novel about things he had never personally experienced. But I doubt that there are many literary treatments of this human tragedy that are as poignant or relevant.

Really lives up to its title. Strong and powerful.

After *Reader, Come Home*, I performed a similar experiment to Wolf--I wanted to read a book that I had read before, and see if/how I could feel the same power. I haven't read this novel since before I got sick, and I'd forgotten almost everything about it except that I had loved it. I didn't remember who lived, who died, just an incredible sense of tragic bleakness. I concentrated reading slowly, forcing myself to go back and re-read passages I found myself skimming over. Remarque is great for

Spark of Life puts you in a journey of emotions, sometimes brings you up, sometimes brings you down. It lets us see the real human nature, what are we capable of doing just to survive. In what do we turn to, how life seems so valuable and how hope is the only thing that makes you go through hell. Loved it from the first page until the last one. Defenitly a must read once in life.

One of the most impressive Remarque books. The harshest, I would say, and as usual incredibly touching.

There was nothing to be said. He was deaf within himself. He no longer had any feelings left. Neither for others nor for himself. Everything was over; he knew it but he didnt feel it yet. He felt only that he didnt feel anything.