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Three Comrades
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Key facts
- Author
- Erich Maria Remarque
- Original title
- Drei Kameraden
- Translator
- A. W. Wheen
- Cover artist
- Paul Wenck
- Language
- Danish
- Genre
- War novel
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company (US), Hutchinson (UK)
- Publication date
- December 1936 , (Danish transl.)
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- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- Erich Maria Remarque
- Country of origin
- Germany
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Follows
- The Road Back
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Encyclopedic overview
Three Comrades (German: Drei Kameraden) is a 1936 novel by the German author Erich Maria Remarque. It is written in first person by the main character Robert Lohkamp, whose somewhat disillusioned outlook on life is due to his horrifying experiences in the trenches of the First World War's French–German front. He shares these experiences with Otto Köster and Gottfried Lenz, his two comrades with whom he runs an auto-repair shop in what may be late-1920s Hamburg. Remarque wrote the novel in exile and it was first published in the Danish translation; the English translation followed soon, being serialised in Good Housekeeping from January to March 1937, and in the book form later in the year. The first German language edition was published in 1938 by Amsterdam Exilliteratur publisher Querido, but the novel was only published in Germany in 1951.
Plot
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