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The masterpiece of the German experience during World War I, considered by many the greatest war novel of all time--with an Oscar-winning film adaptation now streaming on Netflix.
"[Erich Maria Remarque] is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank."-- The New York Times Book Review
I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. . . .
This is the testament of Paul Bäumer, who enlists with his classmates in the German army during World War I. They become soldiers with youthful enthusiasm. But the world of duty, culture, and progress they had been taught breaks in pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches.
Through years of vivid horror, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principle of hate 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.
Notes de l'auteur
Erich Maria Remarque was born Erich Paul Remark on June 22, 1898 in Germany. He was drafted into the German Army at the age of 18. He was assigned to the Western Front and later moved to the 15th Reserve Infantry Regiment. He was wounded by shrapnel in the left leg, right arm and neck, and was moved to an army hospital in Germany where he spent the rest of the war. After the war, he continued his teacher training and became a primary school teacher. He also began pursuing his writing career. He started writing essays and poems and his first novel, The Dream Room. When he published All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque changed his middle name in memory of his mother and reverted to the earlier spelling of the family name. The original family name, Remarque, had been changed to Remark by his grandfather in the 19th century.
All Quiet on the Western Front was written in 1927, but Remarque was unable to find a publisher. The novel was published in 1929 and described the experiences of German soldiers during World War 1. His other works include: Station at the Horizon, The Road Back, Three Comrades, Flotsam, and Shadows in Paradise. Erich Remarque died in 1958 of heart collapse brought on byan aneurysm.
(Bowker Author Biography)
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Critique du Guardian
Does the selection in my local library - predominantly Agatha Christie and books about the two world wars - reflect the reading preferences of its audio customers, I wonder - or their age? Probably the latter since a lot of them are still on cassette which, until this new Hachette edition of Remarque's classic German novel came out, was all you could get. Eighty years after it was first published, it is still the definitive book about not just the Great War but all wars. Remarque's descriptions of the horror and hopelessness of war have been compared to the poems of Wilfred Owen. This is his narrator, 19-year-old Private Paul Baumer, describing the aftermath of a frontline attack in which 118 of B Company's 150 soldiers have been killed. "The tension has worn us out. It is a deadly tension that feels as if a jagged knife blade has been scraped along the spine. Our legs won't function, our hands are trembling and our bodies are like thin membranes stretched over barely repressed madness, holding in what would otherwise be an unrestrained outburst of endless screams." In the 18 months after its publication it sold 2.5m copies in 25 languages, but was later banned and burned by the Nazis. I'm not sure if it's the way the narrator tells it or the way Tom Lawrence reads it that makes it so gut-wrenchingly sad. One by one the small group of schoolfriends Paul joined up with and who have become closer than his family disappear or die. Birdsong, Sunset Song, Regeneration, Goodbye to All That, How Many Miles to Babylon? - there are so many memorable novels about the first world war, but if I had to choose just one, this would have to be it. - Sue Arnold Does the selection in my local library - predominantly Agatha Christie and books about the two world wars - reflect the reading preferences of its audio customers, I wonder - or their age? Probably the latter since a lot of them are still on cassette which, until this new Hachette edition of Remarque's classic German novel came out, was all you could get. Eighty years after it was first published, it is still the definitive book about not just the Great War but all wars. - Sue Arnold.