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Bruce Miller, Associate Professor of Education

State University of New York at Buffalo

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Frank O'Hare, Professor of English

Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

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Faith Z. Schullstrom, Member of Executive Committee

National Council of Teachers of English

Director of Curriculum and Instruction

Guilderland Central School District, New York

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Mattie C. Williams, Director, Bureau of Language Arts

Chicago Public Schools, Chicago, Illinois

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ERICH MARIA REMARQUE'S ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT

BIBLIOGRAPHY (RALLBIBL)

ALL_QUIET

FURTHER READING

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CRITICAL WORKS

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During the second half of his life, German-born Erich Maria Remarque

was an American citizen who spent much of his time in Switzerland. His

books were more popular with the public than with critics. Also, he

wrote in German and his books were then translated into English. As

a result, much less literary criticism- in English- exists on

Remarque's books than those of other major American authors. There

is no biography of Remarque for the general reader.

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Barker, Christine R., and R.W. Last. Erich Maria Remarque. New York:

Barnes & Noble, 1979.

This scholarly book, which uses sources in German and in English,

examines Remarque's life and novels in detail.

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Jacobs, Lewis. The Rise of the American Film. New York: Teachers

College, Columbia University Press, 1968.

Lewis Milestone's 1930 production of All Quiet on the Western

Front is treated as a landmark in early films with sound.

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Schwarz, Wilhelm J. War and the Mind of Germany. I. Frankfurt,

West Germany: Peter Lang, 1975.

An essay in the book compares Remarque's war novel with the work

of other German novelists.

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AUTHOR'S OTHER WORKS

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SEMIAUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVELS

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The Road Back, 1931 (Der Weg zuruck, 1931).

It is a time of shortages, profiteering, riots, and extremist

politics. Men returning from the front no longer fit- with family,

at a teacher's college, in jobs, even in bars or dance-halls. They

feel betrayed by their Fatherland.

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The Black Obelisk, 1957 (Der schwarze Obelisk, 1956).

Political unrest, unemployment, and galloping inflation are facts of

life in Germany in 1923. Ludwig Bodmer, a 25-year-old World War I

veteran, works for a tombstone firm, tutors, and plays organ on

Sundays at an insane asylum. He wanders between the Poets' Club and

a local brothel and between a circus girl and a beautiful asylum

inmate, finally leaving for a newspaper job in Berlin and hoping to

find a purpose in life.

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Three Comrades, 1937 (Drei Kameraden, 1937).

Times are hard and political factions becoming violent in Germany in

1928, but Gottfried Lenz, Otto Koster, and Robert Lohkamp have each

other. Car racing and repair, roses from cloister bushes, Robby's

piano playing, constant drinking- and death- are interwoven in the

story of their friendship and Robby's love of Patricia Hollmann.

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Heaven Has No Favorites, 1961 (Der Himmel kennt keine Gunstlinge,

1961).

Lillian, eager for experiences denied her for three years in a

sanatorium, and Clerfayt, a racing driver, make the most of their

threatened time together one spring and summer in Paris, Sicily,

Venice, and the Riviera. Set after World War II, but the time seems

earlier.

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THE EMIGRANT NOVELS

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These novels, set from about 1937 to the mid 1940s, usually

feature a non-Jewish German deprived of citizenship for political

reasons. He associates with other refugees, some Jewish, some from a

variety of European countries, all of them avoiding European police

since they have no legal papers. The plots continue the themes of

All Quiet on the Western Front- brotherhood versus man's inhumanity to

man- but the dialogues are tiresome debates on life, love, and

politics.

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Flotsam, 1941 (Liebe deinen Nachsten, 1953).

The lives of several German refugees crisscross in 1937 Austria,

Switzerland, and France- in cafes, hotels, customs offices, jails.

Young Ludwig Kern and Ruth Holland survive separation, illness,

poverty, and detention, to hold at last visas and tickets to Mexico.

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Arch of Triumph, 1945 (Arc de Triomphe, 1946).

German refugee Dr. Ravic and small-time actress Joan Madou meet in

Paris in 1938. His illegal status and obsession with revenge on a

German torturer, and her faithlessness, make their love affair a

stormy one.

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The Night in Lisbon, 1964 (Die Nacht von Lissabon, 1964).

Josef Schwarz tells of going back into Nazi Germany for his wife,

Helen, and with her surviving detention and pursuit by French and

German authorities. But she commits suicide on the brink of sailing

for New York rather than let her cancer mar their new life. Schwarz

gives his passport and tickets to a fellow refugee.

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Shadows in Paradise, 1972 (Schatten im Paradies, 1971).

Robert Ross, art expert and former journalist, arrives in New York

on the passport of a dead man. He works illegally in the worlds of New

York art and Hollywood films during World War II. He loses his love,

the model Natasha, by returning to Germany after the war for revenge

(unsuccessful) on a crematorium official.

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WORLD WAR II NOVELS

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Remarque did not himself serve in World War II, and the novels

lack the feeling of involvement conveyed by All Quiet on the Western

Front. Like All Quiet they do, however, continue the themes of man's

inhumanity to man and the value of comradeship.

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Spark of Life, 1952 (Der Funke Leben, 1952).

In a German concentration camp during the last weeks of World War

II, Allied victories rekindle the spark of life in Skeleton 509. His

underground movement, including the Jewish lovers Joseph Bucher and

Ruth Holland, thwarts many SS atrocities. Shortly before the Americans

arrive, Skeleton 509 shoots an SS man and is killed himself, but

Joseph and Ruth survive.

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A Time to Love and a Time to Die, 1954 (Zeit zu leben und Zeit zu

sterben, 1954).

Toward the end of World War II Ernst Graeber, a young German on

the Russian Front, goes home on leave only to find his neighborhood

destroyed by bombs. In searching for his parents, he is sickened by

his growing knowledge of concentration camps and denunciations. He

meets and marries Elisabeth Kruse, a former schoolmate. Back at the

front he saves four Russian prisoners, but is himself shot by one of

them as they flee.

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THE END OF THE BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR BARRON'S BOOK NOTES

ERICH MARIA REMARQUE'S ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT

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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S

AS YOU LIKE IT

by Robert Owens Scott, Associate Producer

Playhouse Repertory Company, New York City

SERIES COORDINATOR

Murray Bromberg, Principal,

Wang High School of Queens, Holliswood, New York

Past President, High School Principals Association of New York City

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Our thanks to Milton Katz and Julius Liebb for their contribution to

the Book Notes series.

Loreto Todd, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Leeds, England,

prepared the chapter on Elizabethan English in this book.

(C) Copyright 1985 by Barron's Educational Series, Inc.

Electronically Enhanced Text (C) Copyright 1993, World Library, Inc.

CONTENTS

CONTENTS

SECTION............................ SEARCH ON

THE AUTHOR AND HIS TIMES............................. SASYAUTH

THE PLAY

The Plot............................................. SASYPLOT

The Characters....................................... SASYCHAR

Other Elements

Setting......................................... SASYSETT

Themes.......................................... SASYTHEM

Style........................................... SASYSTYL

Elizabethan English............................. SASYELIZ

Form and Structure.............................. SASYFORM

Sources......................................... SASYSOUR

The Globe Theatre............................... SASYGLOB

THE PLAY............................................. SASYPLAY

A STEP BEYOND

Tests and Answers.................................... SASYTEST

Term Paper Ideas and other Topics for Writing........ SASYTERM

The Critics.......................................... SASYCRIT

Advisory Board....................................... SASYADVB

Bibliography......................................... SASYBIBL

AUTHOR_AND_HIS_TIMES