Book Review
Jan. 22nd, 2007 08:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kenjariAll Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
This novel about WWI lived up to its reputation as one of the greatest war novels ever written. Remarque's prose is beautiful and his depiction of trench warfare is moving. It is written as a first-person recounting of experiences, so there are many events, but no primary plot other than that of a young man trying to get through the war. The part of the book that sticks with me the most is a very compelling early sequence during which the soldiers shelter from a shelling in a graveyard amongst the burial mounds. When the shells hit the ground, they throw up the coffins, and the soldiers end up using the coffins as cover. The bodies of those killed mingle with those exhumed by the shells.
by Erich Maria Remarque
This novel about WWI lived up to its reputation as one of the greatest war novels ever written. Remarque's prose is beautiful and his depiction of trench warfare is moving. It is written as a first-person recounting of experiences, so there are many events, but no primary plot other than that of a young man trying to get through the war. The part of the book that sticks with me the most is a very compelling early sequence during which the soldiers shelter from a shelling in a graveyard amongst the burial mounds. When the shells hit the ground, they throw up the coffins, and the soldiers end up using the coffins as cover. The bodies of those killed mingle with those exhumed by the shells.
