All Quiet on the Western Front (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
At a glance:
- Author: Erich Paul Remark
- First Published: 1928
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, War fiction
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, France or French people, War, Death or dying, World War I, Corruption, Idealism, Military life or service, Soldiers, Germany or German people
- Locales: France, Germany
The Work
The rapid popular success of Erich Maria Remarque’s novel after it appeared in January, 1929, attracted special attention from the political parties vying for ascendancy in Germany’s Weimar Republic. Reviews by Adolf Hitler’s National Socialists ridiculed the novel as unauthentic, the work of an imaginative Jew intent on pulling down the ideal of heroism. German Marxists judged Remarque as ideologically noncommittal and insufficiently critical of the war it depicted. In Great Britain and Australia, criticism of All Quiet on the Western Front followed...
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