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The German author Erich Maria Remarque (1898-1970) was a popular novelist whose "All Quiet on the Western Front" was the most successful German best seller on the subject of the soldier's life in World War I. Erich Maria Remarque whose real name was Eric...

It is sometimes claimed that next to the Bible, Erich Maria Remarque's Im Westen nichts Neues (1929; translated as All Quiet on the Western Front, 1929) has sold more copies than any other book in history. Whether that claim is true or not, the enormous...

It is sometimes claimed that next to the Bible, Erich Maria Remarque's Im Westen nichts Neues (1929; translated as All Quiet on the Western Front, 1929; has sold more copies than any other book in history. Whether that claim is true or not, the enormous...

One of the greatest pacifist statements ever to reach the screen, All Quiet on the Western Front follows a group of German youths from their patriotic fervor at the start of World War I in 1914, to the death of the last of their number in 1918. Based...

All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque - 1929 Introduction Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, published in 1929 (originally printed in German under the title Im Westen Nichts Neues) remains one of the most...

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque Erich Maria Remarque, the son of a bookbinder, was born in Germany in 1898. A bright and perceptive student with strong interests in music, art, and literature, Remarque decided to pursue a teaching...

All Quiet on the Western Front (German: Im Westen nichts Neues) is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I, about the horrors of that war and also the deep detachment from German civilian life felt by many men returning from the...

May, James Indian Country Today (Lakota Times) 10-23-2002 California issues on backburner for first time in four years SACRAMENTO, Calif. - After a succession of campaigns in which California American Indian issues have been at the forefront, a strangely eerie silence on...

Modris Eksteins on how the Hollywood treatment of Erich von Remarque's book describing the Great War 'from the other side' impacted on a Europe traumatised by slaughter and fearful of its future repetition. 'I hate it', Sydney Carroll told his Sunday readers...

Here are some facts and trivia about the American Film Institute's new list of top-100 U.S. movies, with some comparisons to the institute's first such list in 1998:_ Out of the 43 newly eligible films released from 1996 to 2006, only four made the new...

The American Film Institute's original 1998 list of the top-100 American movies:1. "Citizen Kane," 1941.2. "Casablanca," 1942.3. "The Godfather," 1972.4. "Gone With the Wind," 1939.5. "Lawrence of Arabia," 1962.6. "The Wizard of Oz," 1939.7. "The Graduate," 1967.8. "On the Waterfront," 1954.9. "Schindler's List," 1993.10. "Singin'...

All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues) is one of the most surprising phenomena in the history of literature. Its commercial success was unparalleled…. But the novel was not simply a best-seller. It also became a focus of intellectual and, indeed, of political life. Immediately upon its appearance, it provided a casus belli for the battle, in the Germany of 1929, between militarists and pacifists, right wing and left. (p. 101)

Neither in length, scope, nor importance can the work of Erich Maria Remarque, whose novel, Im Westen nichts Neues [All Quiet on the Western Front] (1928), became a world sensation, be compared to the epic achievement of [Arnold] Zweig. Its success will perhaps never be satisfactorily explained, but one fact seems certain: it cannot be due exclusively to extraordinary merit. Remarque is an artist. By his impressionistic talent he knows how to draw characters and situations that engage attention and arouse d...

Erich Maria Remarque was a German soldier during the World War and has written a record of life in the trenches ["All Quiet on the Western Front"]…. [As] the terse story marches forward we encounter the things that other war books have made known to us: the trench mud, the lice, the ineradicable rats, the tension, noise, fear, pain, hunger, horror….

Erich Maria Remarque's novel "All Quiet on the Western Front" tells the story of front-line fighting during World War I through the eyes of Private Paul Baumer. The novel's theme of pacifism made it a target of criticism from German critics. Even so, the novel was a best-seller and a film version was made.

Through the many examples presented by the writer, Remarque dispels the myth of war and provides the reader with an honest overview of the conflict. He reveals that nationalism and patriotism to be false and hollow and the ruinous effects the war has on soldiers.

Essay discusses how the character of Paul is emotionally, physically, and mentally lost in "All Quiet On The Western Front."