All Quiet on the Western Front

Pas de couverture — Andrea Wulf, Erich Maria Remarque, Brian Murdoch, Norman Stone, Alexander von Humboldt: All Quiet on the Western Front (2018, Everyman)

840 pages

Langue : English

Publié 6 août 2018 par Everyman.

ISBN :: 978-1-84159-387-6

This edition is in Hebrew. Youthful, enthusiastic, they become soldiers. But despite what they have learned, they break into pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches. And as horrible war plods on year after year, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principles of hate that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against each other --- if only he can come out of the war alive

70 éditions

73pctGeek a publié une critique de All Quiet on the Western Front par Erich Maria Remarque

Dulce et Decorum est

3 étoiles

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.

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

5 étoiles

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.

Sujets

Remarque, erich maria, 1898-1970
World war, 1914-1918, literature and the war