In the novel The Black Obelisk (1956), E. M. Remarque brilliantly recreated the atmosphere of Germany in the 1920s. Time between two world wars... The time of the birth of fascism... The time that the writer marked with the title of another of his novels - "Time to Live and Time to Die "... The main character, who serves in a tombstone company, is trying to find an answer to the question of the meaning of human existence. And in the era of "inter-time" it is especially difficult.