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All Quiet on the Western Front ( German: Im Westen nichts Neues, lit. 'In the West, nothing new') is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I. The book describes the German soldiers' extreme physical and mental trauma during the war as well as the detachment from civilian life felt by many upon returning home from the war.
- Erich Maria Remarque
- 200
- 1929
- 29 January 1929
Apr 2, 2024 · All Quiet on the Western Front, novel by German writer Erich Maria Remarque, published in 1929 as Im Westen nichts Neues and in the United States as All Quiet on the Western Front. An antiwar novel set during World War I, it relies on Remarque’s personal experience in the war to depict the era’s broader disillusionment.
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- Erich Maria Remarque based the novel on his own experiences in World War I. Erich Paul Remark was born in Osnabrück, Germany, on June 22, 1898, to Anna Maria and Peter Franz Remark.
- All Quiet on the Western Front isn’t a direct translation of the book’s German title. The Berlin newspaper Vossische Zeitung printed Remarque’s story in serial form in 1928; and the Ullstein Verlag, a German publisher, released it as a book the following January.
- Early American editions were censored. After Little, Brown and Company bought the rights to publish Wheen’s translation in the U.S. in 1929, editors made some updates for two reasons: to abide by obscenity laws, and also to help ensure that the Book of the Month Club would choose it as a future book pick.
- Remarque wrote a sequel. In All Quiet on the Western Front, the soldiers—the young ones in particular—struggle to imagine returning to regular life after the war, and Paul has a tough time just being home on leave.
All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues) (1929), his career-defining work, was also written in 1927. Remarque was at first unable to find a publisher for it. Its text described the experiences of German soldiers during World War I.
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- 25 September 1970 (aged 72), Locarno, Switzerland
All Quiet on the Western Front is narrated by Paul Bäumer, a young man of nineteen who fights in the German army on the French front in World War I. Paul and several of his friends from school joined the army voluntarily after listening to the stirring patriotic speeches of their teacher, Kantorek.
- Erich Maria Remarque
- 1929
Apr 3, 2024 · Erich Maria Remarque (born June 22, 1898, Osnabrück, Ger.—died Sept. 25, 1970, Locarno, Switz.) was a novelist who is chiefly remembered as the author of Im Westen nichts Neues (1929; All Quiet on the Western Front), which became perhaps the best-known and most representative novel dealing with World War I.
Full title All Quiet on the Western Front (German: Im Westen Nichts Neues) Author Erich Maria Remarque. Type of work Novel. Genres War novel, historical fiction, novel of social protest. Language German. Time and place written Late 1920s, Berlin. Date of first publication 1928. Publisher A. G. Ullstein in Germany; Little, Brown in the United States
