Heaven knows no minions

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Heaven knows no favorites is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque . The story is about love, passion and fear of death. It first appeared in 1959 as a series of novels in the Hamburger Illustrierte Kristall under the title "Borrowed Life". The story was published in book form in 1961.

action

The main character, Clerfayt, is a car racing driver who visits an injured colleague in a Swiss hospital . There he meets Lillian, a young Belgian woman who suffers from tuberculosis .

She is in the terminal stage of the disease with no prospect of a cure and wants to enjoy the last months of her life and not spend it in bed. She leaves her boyfriend Boris and goes to Paris with Clerfayt . Together with Clerfayt, she travels through Europe and makes new experiences.

Clerfayt falls in love with her and continues to race. Clerfayt expresses that he wants to settle down with Lillian at home, but she refuses. Clerfayt is seriously injured in a race and dies in hospital. Lillian returns to the sanatorium in Switzerland and spends the rest of the time with Boris. She dies six weeks later.

filming

Sydney Pollack filmed the story very freely in 1977 under the title " Bobby Deerfield " with Al Pacino as the racing car driver Bobby Deerfield and Marthe Keller as Lillian Morelli.

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