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(5 pp) Erich Maria Remarque presents the story of
Paul Baumer, a German soldier in World War I.
Paul, as the novel's first-person narrator,
describes a series of incidents and impressions of
war through his own eyes. One main theme of the
novel is how war creates feelings of isolation and
disillusionment. The novel also represents a
generation destroyed by the dehumanization of the
war as slugged out in the trenches.
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first-person narrator, describes a series of incidents and impressions of war through his own eyes. One main theme of the novel is how war creates feelings of isolation and disillusionment.
The novel also represents a generation destroyed by the dehumanization of the war as slugged out in the trenches. Erich Maria Remarque He studied at the University of M?nster but
had to enlist in the German army at the age of 18. He fought on the Western Front and was wounded several times. After his discharge Remarque had taken a
teachers course offered to veterans by the government. He taught for a year in a school, and worked as a stonecutter and a test-cardriver. Remarque began his writing career as
a sporting journalist, and assistant editor of Sportbild. Fame came with his first novel, All Quiet on the Westerns Front, which touched a nerve of the time, and sparkled off
a storm of political controversy. In the 1930s Remarques books were banned in Germany by the government. All Quiet on the Western Front was among the works consigned to
be publicly burnt in 1933 by the Nazis. Stores were ordered to stop selling his books. The films premiere was disrupted by Nazi gangs; Remarque was accused of pacifism. In
1938 Remarque lost his citizenship, and he left Germany. He moved to Switzerland and later to the United States. All Quiet on the Western Front "This book is to be
neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try
simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped its shells, were destroyed by war." (introduction) Thus begins one of the greatest anti-war
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