110. Title & Author: All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (256 pages)
Genre: Fiction--War
Completed: 11 August 2009
Summary & Review:
The novel follows Paul Baeumer, a young twenty-year-old solider, along with his classmates as they face and try to cope with the horrors of World War I trench warfare. Paul watches as one by one his friends and comrades, whom he has grown indescribably close to, fall. How is he expected to move on with life after the end of the war, if the end of the war ever comes?
In my German readings art history class we read the last chapter of this in its original German so I was interested in reading the rest. Since my German reading skills are okay, but it is still a laborious process, I read the English translation. Remarque's depiction of war was graphic and unrelenting. The brutal realities of the war, including the psychological stresses the young soldiers underwent, were told without any hint of a romanticizing lens.
Rating: 7.5
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