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Erich Maria Remarque


Born
in Osnabrück, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire
June 22, 1898

Died
September 25, 1970

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Erich Maria Remarque was a German novelist best known for All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), a landmark anti-war novel based on his experiences in World War I. The book became an international bestseller, defining a new genre of veterans’ literature and inspiring multiple film adaptations. Its strong anti-war themes led to condemnation by the Nazi regime, which banned and burned his works.
Born Erich Paul Remark in 1898, he adopted the surname Remarque to honor his French ancestry. He served on the Western Front during World War I, where he was wounded, and later pursued various jobs, including teaching, editing, and technical writing. After the massive success of All Quiet on the Western Front, he wrote several other novels addressing w
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“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. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.”
Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
tags: war, ww1

“It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.”
Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades

“But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony--Forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?”
Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
tags: war

Polls

March 2016 New School Group Read

1950, The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, 182 pages
 
  25 votes, 12.6%

1987, Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami, 296 pages
 
  24 votes, 12.1%

1965, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, 343 pages
 
  20 votes, 10.1%

1972, Watership Down by Richard Adams, 481 pages
 
  19 votes, 9.5%

1955, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, 307 pages
 
  14 votes, 7.0%

 
  14 votes, 7.0%

1963, Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, 179 pages
 
  12 votes, 6.0%

1928, Orlando by Virginia Woolf, 228 pages
 
  11 votes, 5.5%

1987, Beloved by Toni Morrison, 324 pages
 
  11 votes, 5.5%

 
  9 votes, 4.5%

 
  9 votes, 4.5%

1931, The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, 418 pages
 
  8 votes, 4.0%

1919, Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson, 240 pages
 
  8 votes, 4.0%

1958, The Tin Drum by Günter Grass, 567 pages
 
  5 votes, 2.5%

1920, Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset, 1168 pages
 
  4 votes, 2.0%

1937, Christ in Concrete by Pietro Di Donato, 256 pages
 
  2 votes, 1.0%

 
  2 votes, 1.0%

1949, The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles, 342 pages
 
  2 votes, 1.0%

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