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    All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
    All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
    All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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    All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

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    Unlock the more straightforward side of All Quiet on the Western Front with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!

    This engaging summary presents an analysis of All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, the world famous novel in which he paints a vivid portrait of the horrors of war, inspired by his own experience in the First World War. Through the eyes of the young Paul Bäumer, the reader discovers the atrocities of an absurd conflict, as well as the solidarity and fraternity of the simple soldiers. The novel made him an enemy of the Nazis, who burnt many of his books during the Second World War. Since then, however, the novel has been adapted into an Oscar-winning movie starring Lew Ayres.

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    PublisherBrightSummaries.com
    Release dateDec 21, 2015
    ISBN9782806273307
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      All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (Book Analysis) - Bright Summaries

      German novelist

      Born in Osnabrück in 1898

      Died in Locarno (Switzerland) in 1970

      Notable works:

      All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), novel

      Three Comrades (1937), novel

      A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1954), novel

      Erich Maria Remarque (Erich Paul Remark’s pseudonym), born in 1898 in Germany and died in 1970 in Switzerland, was one of the great authors interested in human values, such as friendship, solidarity and pacifism (Three Comrades, 1937). He was also a man branded by the time he lived in, and worried about the economic depression (The Black Obelisk, 1956), dictatorship and oppression (A Time to Love and a Time to Die, 1954). His first novels, very poignant, and erroneously and exaggeratedly interpreted at the time of their first printing (some people considered the author to be conveying antinationalist messages in his works), resulted in him losing his German nationality.

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