Authors: Erich Maria Remarque, Steve Moore
ISBN-13: 9780835910637, ISBN-10: 0835910636
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Globe Fearon Educational Publishing
Date Published: May 1998
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Book Synopsis
Considered one of the greatest war stories ever written -- and one of the classics of antiwar literature -- Remarque's 1929 masterpiece tells the story of young Paul Baumer, who enlists in the German Army in World War I and takes place with his comrades in the trenches.
The world has gained a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. He is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank, a man who can bend language to his will.
Table of Contents
Introduction 7
Biographical Sketch 9
The Story Behind the Story 17
List of Characters 20
Summary and Analysis 23
Critical Views 52
Brian Murdoch on All Quiet on the Western Front as a Weimar Antiwar Novel 52
Brian Murdoch on Remarque and Homer 57
A.F. Bance on the Novel's Best-seller Status 63
Chris Daley on the Force of Silence in All Quiet on the Western Front 68
Hildegard Emmel on All Quiet on the Western Front as a Weimar Novel 71
Vita Fortunati on the Representation of World War I in Hemingway, Remarque, and Ford Madox Ford 75
Dorothy B. Jones on the Film Version of the Novel 79
Helmut Liedloff on A Farewell to Arms and All Quiet on the Western Front 83
Alfredo Bonadeo on Paul Baumer's Relationship to German Culture 87
Modris Eksteins on the Novel as a Postwar Commentary 92
Hans Wagener on the Final Chapter of All Quiet on the Western Front 96
Robert Baird on Hollywood's Ambivalence to World War I Novels 100
Wilhelm J. Schwarz on Remarque's Memorial to the Unknown Soldier 105
Works Erich Maria Remarque 110
Annotated Bibliography 111
Contributors 120
Acknowledgments 123
Index 125
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