Completed : Oparin Matvey It will be about the novel by Erich Maria Remarque "On the Western Front without change"
Erich Maria Remarque (Erich Paul Remarque) is a twentieth–century German writer, a representative of the "lost generation". He was born on June 22, 1898 in Osnabrück. Remarque's first education was at a church school. He then studied at a Catholic seminary. In 1916 he went to war and was wounded. In total, the writer has fifteen novels on his account. Remarque's first works were written in 1916. Later, the writer took the pseudonym Erich Maria Remarque – in honor of his deceased mother. Remarque depicted his impressions of the brutality of the war in the work "On the Western Front without Change", which will be discussed further. In addition, he published several other similar works, but all of them were burned by the Nazis in 1933.
The anti-war novel tells about all the experiences seen at the front by the young soldier Paul Boimer, as well as his front-line comrades in the First World War. Remarque used the term "lost generation" to describe young people who, due to the mental injuries they received in the war, were unable to settle into civilian life
Paul is a dreamy young man, a poet, an artist, after graduating from school, under the pressure of militaristic propaganda, he volunteers for the front with his classmates. Every day of the war takes the lives of someone's fathers, sons, and friends who serve with Paul. Meanwhile, the newspapers dispassionately report: "there is no change on the Western Front"
Т he novel "On the Western Front without change" is one of the brightest and most impressed me. The way the author describes the situation on the front line in detail, using harsh epithets and colorful metaphors, is very catchy and evokes emotions. Remark correctly describes the feelings and thoughts of the main character, an ordinary soldier. The way very young boys, who have not really graduated from school, get into the most terrible thing that can happen — to war, where they see murders, blood, torment and immorality every day, and then return to peaceful life, is quite plausibly and darkly described by the Remark. He went through all this himself, participating in the war. Heroes see death every day, lose friends, but the main thing is that it does not make their hearts callous. In the darkness of the night, they shed a stingy man's tear when they have to write to the mother of a dead comrade that her son will never return.
This is a very heartfelt story about the true horrors of war and pain, which I recommend everyone to read.
