Biography EssayIt 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...
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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 Worl...
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In the first chapter of the classic World War I novel All Quiet on the Western Front, four German soldiers at the front are disconsolate after having visited one of their friends, who is dying in a fi...
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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 his...
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Critical Essay by Richard Church
Surely everyone, again and again, has asked himself with misgiving and horror what is this conspiracy of silence maintained Jerry Bauerby the men who returned from the...
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Critical Essay by Ben Ray Redman
Remarque's subject [in "Flotsam"] is profoundly important and alive with tragedy: the fate of the exiles, the refugees, the many thousands who hav...
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Critical Essay by Quentin Reynolds
"Spark of Life" is a grim, agonizing but terribly wonderful story of what happened to the political and religious nonconformists in Hitler's Ger...
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Critical Essay by Frederic Morton
"Only the unhappy man appreciates happiness. The happy man … displays it merely." These are words spoken in "Three Comrades," the n...
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Critical Essay by Melvin Maddocks
On its lacquered surface, Shadows in Paradise shows all the familiar Remarque gloss. There is the typically commercial title, second only to Heaven Has No Favorites. ...
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Critical Essay by Robert W. Haney
Except for a few scenes set in Hollywood, Robert Ross, the principal character in ["Shadows in Paradise"], explores and uses the sights, sounds and peop...
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Critical Essay by Michael O'malley
The way [Andrew] Wyeth paints: no thunder in his picture, just a modulation of blues to make you see the sky's a bit strange and, like a letter shoved ...
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Critical Essay by Modris Eksteins
Between 1928 and 1930 Germany and Great Britain especially, and France and America to a lesser extent, experienced a sudden and remarkable 'boom' in war...
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Critical Essay by The New York Times Book Review
The world has gained a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. Of that there can be no longer any question. On the two themes which he has thus far chose...
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Critical Essay by William Faulkner
There is a victory beyond defeat which the victorious know nothing of. A bourne, a shore of refuge beyond the lost battles, the bronze names and the lead tombs, guar...
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Erich Maria Remarque
Erich Maria Remarque
Erich Maria Remarque
