“And men will not understand us…and the war will be forgotten – and the generation that has grown up after us will be strange to us and push us aside. We will be superfluous even to ourselves…the years will pass by and we shall fall into ruin.” – Erich Maria Remarque
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (image courtesy Goodreads)
It is often called the greatest war novel of all time.
Erich Maria Remarque’s depiction of the horror of an ordinary soldier’s life in World War I,
All Quiet on the Western Front, is a work of great power that haunts one long after one has completed it. Like other great examiners of war from Grimmelshausen to Stephen Crane to Norman Mailer to Kevin Powers, Remarque has the skill to give us the psychological horror of being lost on the battlefield – and lost at home.
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“Books of My Life”
Here’s more inspiration for reading to carry us through the dark days of this pandemic winter, away into other worlds and other times while tucked up safely at home.
Q and A with Eileen Daniel, Rossland Public Library Board Member, Publicity:
1.
Adventure series by Enid Blyton:
The Island of Adventure; The Circus of Adventure; et cetera
. Four young protagonists had exciting adventures and implausibly solved mysteries in post-war Europe.
2.
My favorite movie versions of great novels are the three
Lord of the Rings movies. Although I sometimes wish I lived in the idyllic Shire (Rossland is the closest), it’s mostly Faramir: “I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”