All Quiet on the Western Front
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Considered one of the greatest war stories ever written -- and one of the classics of antiwar literature -- Remarque's 1929 masterpiece tells the story of young Paul Baumer, who enlists in the German Army in World War I and takes place with his comrades in the trenches.The world has gained a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. He is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank, a man who can bend language to his will.
Introduction 7Biographical Sketch 9The Story Behind the Story 17List of Characters 20Summary and Analysis 23Critical Views 52Brian Murdoch on All Quiet on the Western Front as a Weimar Antiwar Novel 52Brian Murdoch on Remarque and Homer 57A.F. Bance on the Novel's Best-seller Status 63Chris Daley on the Force of Silence in All Quiet on the Western Front 68Hildegard Emmel on All Quiet on the Western Front as a Weimar Novel 71Vita Fortunati on the Representation of World War I in Hemingway, Remarque, and Ford Madox Ford 75Dorothy B. Jones on the Film Version of the Novel 79Helmut Liedloff on A Farewell to Arms and All Quiet on the Western Front 83Alfredo Bonadeo on Paul Baumer's Relationship to German Culture 87Modris Eksteins on the Novel as a Postwar Commentary 92Hans Wagener on the Final Chapter of All Quiet on the Western Front 96Robert Baird on Hollywood's Ambivalence to World War I Novels 100Wilhelm J. Schwarz on Remarque's Memorial to the Unknown Soldier 105Works Erich Maria Remarque 110Annotated Bibliography 111Contributors 120Acknowledgments 123Index 125
