All Quiet on the Western Front

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audio cd, 6 pages

Langue : English

Publié 1 janvier 1994 par Recorded Books.

ISBN :
978-1-4025-2234-5
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This is the testament of Paul Bäumer, who enlists with his classmates in the German army of World War I. These young men become enthusiastic soldiers, but their world of duty, culture, and progress breaks into pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches.

Through years of vivid horror, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the hatred that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against one another... if only he can come out of the war alive.

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a publié une critique de À l'Ouest rien de nouveau par Erich Maria Remarque

Un livre magnifique mais très dur sur la guerre

Ce livre m'a profondément touché. Ici nous nous trouvons à l'opposé des films américains/hollywood sur la guerre et la bravoure du héro. Les visions d'horreur sont présentés comme un constant, une habitude même pour Paul (le personnage principal). On comprend toute l'absurdité du conflit, la perte, la douleur, le décalage, la mort (de son corps ou de son esprit) et l'impossible réparation. Un livre court mais percutant à chaque page. Je pourrais le recommander à n'importe qui tant qu'elle ou il a le coeur accroché.

a publié une critique de All Quiet on the Western Front par Erich Maria Remarque

Dulce et Decorum est

A powerful anti-war novel in which Remarque immerses the reader in the meat-grinder of WW1, and all the horrors of trench warfare, both hideous and banal.

We read how the war happens to the narrator, Paul. How he cannot escape its clutches, how he & his comrades become so very important to each other. How the impossible to understand, must be experienced to be understood.

Throughout, Remarque makes damned sure the reader comprehends the old lie: dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, and then the sickening realisation of what the title means.

a publié une critique de All Quiet on the Western Front par Erich Maria Remarque

Review of 'All Quiet on the Western Front' on 'Goodreads'

4 1/2 stars
Yeah, I liked this. I can see why this is a classic and why it has withstood the test of time. I'm sure it was controversial back in the day because it was kind of gritty and risque'. I'm not one for war stories so the fact that I read this and was engaged until the end is a testament to the authors ability to tell it "like it is" without sugar-coating or sentimentality which would render it corny. And we all know I have an adversion to corny.

So yeah, force yourself out of your comfort zone occasionally and read something you aren't exactly drawn towards. There is a lot of classic literature out there and it's almost always worthy of your reading time. Go for it.