Remarque that World War II was Hitler's war, in which the “master race” was to exterminate the Jews and other “nonpeople.” “I see that the keenest brains of the world invent weapons and words to make it yet more re fined and enduring.”Īnd in his most recent book, “The Night in Lisbon,” there is no question for Mr. “I see how peoples are set against one another and in si lence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another,” Paul Baumer, the protagonist in “All Quiet on the Western Front,” says.

Re marque shunned the superficial explanation of war as man's in humanity to man and strove to discern its power politics and to identify the “they” who sent millions to their deaths.

lts stark description of the physical agonies of battle was written with anger and with grief for the plight Clf the conscript soldier, who was depicted in his lyric mo ments and in his most crass.Ī moralist who was indig nant, even passionate, Mr. He dem onstrated it again and again in novels that sold in the millions, but in none so much as in “All Quiet on the Western Front.”Ī novel of unrelenting realism of battle action in World War I, it was published in Germany in 1929 as “Im Westen Nichts Neues.” The English translation appeared the same year in the United States. The power to move people by words, to arouse their sensibili ties as well as their minds, was Erich Maria Remarque's to an extraordinary degree.

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