All Quiet on the Western Front

Registration is over. Faculty are gathering materials to prepare for the first day of classes on Tuesday Oct 3. It's very quiet. The phrase all quiet on the western front slipped into my head.

Did you see the movie or read the book All Quiet on the Western Front? There are Cliff notes in netLibrary about All Quiet on the Western Front.

All Quiet on the Western Front Notes by Mary Ellen Snodgrass, M.A. University of North Carolina at Greensboro including • Life and Background • Remarque's Literary Works • Remarque's Films • Introduction to the Novel • A Brief Synopsis • List of Characters • Critical Commentaries • Map of the Battlefront • Critical Essays Style Symbolism Rhetorical Devices A Note on World War I and Its Technology • Character Analyses • Review Questions and Essay Topics • A Selected Bibliography INCORPORATED LINCOLN, NEBRASKA 68501 heavily. While working for various movie studios, Remarque settled in a colony of German expatriates in west Los Angeles until 1942, when he moved to New York's Ambassador Hotel and eventually to an apartment on East 57th Street, which he considered his permanent home. Life became less oppressive for Remarque in his last two decades. A reader of Malraux, Proust, Flaubert, Balzac, Stendhal, Poe, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Rilke, London, Wilder, and Zen philosophy, he also devoted himself to book discussions, long walks, and collecting Iranian rugs and Chinese bronze figurines, which his wife later sold to relieve the burden of guarding his costly treasures. Remarque's Literary Works Unlike many classic authors, Remarque achieved enough monetary return from All Quiet on the Western Front to allow him the luxury of time and selectivity.

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