It's like the most depressing drinking game ever. Now it's just a matter of guessing which horrible death will be assigned to them: shrapnel to the stomach, bleeding to death in no-man's-land, drowning in mud, succumbing to dysentery, shot for deserting, bayonetted at close range, vaporised by a whizz-bang, victim of Spanish flu. There's only so many times you can go through the same shit, whether they're English, French, German, Russian – oh look, another group of pals from school, eagerly jogging down to the war office to sign up. I've been reading about the First World War solidly since December and I've had enough now. The complete works of Remarque are both highly interrelated with his Osnabrück background and speaking thematically of a critical examination of German history, whereby the preservation of human dignity and humanity in times of oppression, terror and war always was at the forefront of his literary creation. Remarque's novels have been translated in more than fifty languages globally the total edition comes up to several million copies. The first publication attained worldwide recognition, continuing today.Įxamples of his other novels also internationally published are: The Road Back (1931), Three Comrades (1936, 38), Arch of Triumph (1945), The Black Obelisk (1956), and Night in Lisbon (1962). German history of the twentieth century essentially marks biography of Remarque and fundamentally influences his writing: Childhood and youth, the Weimar Republic, and most of all his exile in Switzerland and the United States. People most widely read literature of author with pen name of Erich Paul Remark in the twentieth century. After all, even though World War I was supposed to be "the war to end all wars," Germany would soon be at the center of another global tragedy in World War II, less than two decades later.Experiences of German-born American writer Erich Maria Remarque in World War I based All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), his best known novel. The trauma of his experience will haunt him for the rest of his days, and beyond that, Europe won't heal in the wake of the war. There are no heroes or victories in "All Quiet on the Western Front." Even though Paul survives and eventually discovers that the war has ended, he's clearly been forever changed. So, you can just feel shame and guilt and terror and a sense of responsibility towards that history. And I feel it. They had a sense of pride and a sense of honor about what they did. There's nothing honorable or to be proud about in terms of that part of German history. " you're allowed to tell a story of people that also did something with purpose that were probably broken just as much as soldiers from other countries, but they were allowed to heal.
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