All Quiet on the Western Front | Literary Precedents
All Quiet on the Western Front belongs to the literature of war genre that extends backward in time to Homer's Iliad and forward to the Viet Nam novels. Significantly, however, All Quiet on the Western Front marks a change in attitude towards war, an attitude similarly expressed by other World War I writers — poets like Wilfred Owens and Siegfried Sassoon, and novelists like Ernest Hemingway, Dalton Trumbo, and Humphrey Cobb. Instead of glorifying the warrior hero and war itself, Remarque catalogs the ghastly horrors and sheer absurdity of World War I. In fact, in the...
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