No new on the Western front | Erich Maria Remarque

"All Quiet on the Western Front" is the most famous and important novel by Remarque. It achieved great success after its publication in 1929, unprecedented in the history of literary publishing in Germany. At the same time, the novel was subjected to a fierce attack by right-wing parties, headed by the Nazi Party, culminating later in the burning of Remarque's books in public squares and the withdrawal of his citizenship in 1938. The novel revolves around the experience of the young soldier Bauer during World War I, where Bauer, influenced by one of his teachers, decides to leave school and go directly to the front lines. The novel has been translated into more than fifty languages to date, and millions of copies have been sold worldwide. It is considered the most important German anti-war novel of the twentieth century, and the title of the novel has become synonymous with the futility of wars and the senseless death of ordinary people in conflicts from which others benefit. The novel was adapted into a film in 1930, which won two Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director, and became a classic anti-war film. Remarque was born in Germany in 1898. He was drafted into the war during his studies in 1916 and was seriously injured, which kept him in a military hospital for a long time. After the war, Remarque worked in various professions and lived most of his life in Switzerland, where he died in 1970. Some of his novels include "The Road Back" (1931), "Three Comrades" (1936), and "A Night in Lisbon" (1962).