How ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ Transformed War Writing - The Atlantic
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In ‘All Quiet on the Western Front,’ Erich Maria Remarque reinvented a genre.
Listen − 1.0 x + Seek 0:00 11:12 Every war begins in blind folly and ends in unimagined suffering. This is true of all wars but especially of the First World War. Its catalysts were so trivial and its consequences so apocalyptic that they belong in a Swiftian satire of human stupidity: the shooting of a bewhiskered potentate, followed by a botched game of diplomatic chicken, armies mobilized across Europe and cheered on by delirious publics, a whole generation sent to die by the millions in industrial warfare—all for a few miles of mud and barbed wire. Between the assassination in Sarajevo, th
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