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Quiet on the western frontBIBLIOGRAPHY:
AUTHOR - Erich Maria Remarque
- German writer, wanted to become a musician and painter
- in 1916 (he was 18 years old) he volunteered for the First World War on the Z front,
was seriously wounded there (he spent the rest of the war in an infirmary)
- on his return, he had trouble fitting back into society
- he also worked as an editor - travelled extensively in Europe
- moved to Switzerland
- got on the list of banned authors (after the rise of Nazism), was stripped of his German
citizenship
- then went to New York, where he became an American citizen
- never returned to his homeland - didn't identify with what they had done (ashamed of
what they were capable of)
WORK:
Three friends
Arc de Triomphe
Time to live, time to die
OTHER AUTHORS:
- Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
- John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
- Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
- Jaroslav Hašek, The Fate of the Good Soldier Svejk
- the work was harshly condemned by the Nazis, Remarque was branded a
literary traitor (his books were publicly burned because his description of the war
was unsuitable for the militant regime - he was giving evidence of the real picture
of what it was like at the front) - he was forced to emigrate to the USA
- only this novel made him a worldwide success, the book was immediately made
into a film (one year later, then in the 70s)
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