About the book: 2009 / Life experience too extensive for a young man required creative implementation: after numerous essays and journalistic publications, the novel "In the West" appeared in 1929 no change on the front." A kind of “echo” of the novel was a series of six stories that were published in 1930–1931 in the American magazine Collier’s Weekly under the general title “The Enemy” (Der Feind). In the Russian edition, for the title of the collection they chose the title of another story - “Anneta’s Love Story».