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"They played with death, they raged through the night, they succumbed to the terrible tiredness of the early morning with stiff, mask-like faces, they raced on, on, as if they were fighting for the greatest thing in the world."
Two fates in troubled times: Shortly after the end of the Second World War, the lung-sick Lillian and the racing driver Clerfayt experience a love between Paris, Rome and Monte Carlo that can only last for a short time. An unusual Remarque novel and its philosophical legacy: What is the value of life given the inevitability of death?