The Novels of Erich Maria Remarque: Sparks of Life by Brian Murdoch

Erich Maria Remarque is a writer of great popularity who has rightly been described as a "chronicler of the twentieth century." He is both a German writer and a genuinely international one. Although he spent much of his life in exile from Germany, most of his novels reflect its twentieth-century the two world wars and the Weimar and Nazi regimes, and especially their effects on the individual. His portrayals of the lives of refugees from Nazi Germany are especially vivid. His themes are universal, dealing with human relationships, with love in particular, and with the provisional nature of life. Often seen as a one-novel writer due to the immense success of All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque wrote many other novels, major works that have nearly all been filmed and have remained popular. Nor should it be ignored that his works are above all else immensely not a negligible criterion. This new study of Remarque's novels treats them as a chronicle of the century, but also looks at them as works that go beyond the reflection of historical events. Brian Murdoch is Emeritus Professor of German at the University of Stirling, Scotland.

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Erich Paul Remark and Erich Maria The Writer and His Die Traumbude and GamFrom the Frog's Im Westen nichts Neues and Der Weg zurückRootless in Der schwarze Obelisk and Drei KameradenThe First Liebe Deinen Nächsten and Arc de Die Nacht von Lissabon and Schatten im Paradies/Das gelobte LandEducating Der Funke Leben and Zeit zu leben und Zeit zu sterbenThe Lap of the From Station am Horizont to Der Himmel kennt keine GünstlingeSelect BibliographyIndex