Remarque’s novel detailed the physical and mental stress of German soldiers during the war as well as the detachment from civilian life felt upon returning home. For something so popular, it may come as a surprise that Remarque’s novel was ever banned.Īlthough the book was published more than a decade after the armistice, the lingering weight of World War I was still heavy on the minds of readers. Within the first eighteen months in print, the novel had been copied in twenty-two different languages and sold 2.5 million copies. In the United States, the English translation titled, All Quiet on the Western Front, became a best-selling work of fiction. In January of the following year, it was released as a book and saw immediate success. ― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western FrontĮrich Maria Remarque’s novel Im Westen nichts Neues was first published in serial form in the Vossische Zeitung magazine from November to December, 1928.
Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony - Forgive me, comrade how could you be my enemy?” I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. “But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me.
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