Remarque ''Nothing new on the Western Front'' (Audio Book): Summary and Commentary
listen to it here : https://amzn.to/3yFj4xF INTRODUCTION All Quiet on the Western Front (1929; in the original title Im Westen nichts Neues) is an autobiographical novel by the German writer Erich Maria Remarque (1898-1970), pseudonym in French of the author's real name, namely Erich Paul Remark), focusing on The experience of a young soldier in the trenches during the First World War. The novel has become a manifesto against the atrocities of war, which are described without lyricism, with a cold and realistic gaze. The book, published first in a magazine and then in volume, immediately achieved great success and also became an Oscar-winning film in 1930. Remarque's work was then harshly opposed by the Nazi regime, which burned copies of Nothing back to the Western Front. SUMMARY The protagonist of the novel is the young Paul Bäumer who, right from school, is heavily indoctrinated by teachers into the myth of war and the values of nationalism, based on patriotic pride an