Dec 1, 2008
The Oxford Companion to English Literature | Remarque, Erich Maria
Remarque, Erich
Maria
(
1898
–
1970
),
German novelist, author of Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front,
1929
), a fictionalized acount of his experiences in the First World War which was translated into many languages, but in Germany was denounced for its pacifism and burnt publicly (
1933
) by the Nazis.
Remarque
left Germany in
1938
, and in
1939
moved permanently to the United States; many of his later novels centre on the theme of exile.
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