This collection includes texts by Remarque, never before published in Russian, - diary entries, letters and poems that he wrote all his life.One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century appears in this collection as an ordinary a man, a man experiencing stormy romances and dramatic breaks with his beloved women, watching with horror the tragedy of Germany obsessed with Nazism in the 1930s, knowing the unsettledness of a difficult life in emigration and the joy of returning home after the war. A man who knew how to be friends and love, and even in the most difficult times did not lose his original, slightly sarcastic humor. A man whom neither poverty and obscurity, nor world fame could change ...