Arch of Triumph Summary / Study Guide

Arch of Triumph | Characters

Arch of Triumph develops two major characters, Ravic and Joan. Ravic, a skilled surgeon whose real name is Ludwig Fresenberg, served in World War I where he met Sergeant Katczinsky, hid two of his friends from the Gestapo, was caught and brutally interrogated by Haake, and then sent to a concentration camp from which he escaped to become a Paris refugee, a man without a passport or a country. Ravic saves Joan Madou from suicide after the death of her lover, and he and Joan fall in love because each needs the other as stabilizing influences in a rapidly changing world. As with the...

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