Erich Maria Remarque wrote war and exile fiction shaped by the experience of Europeans displaced or traumatised by the First and Second World Wars. All Quiet on the Western Front follows young German soldier Paul Bäumer and his classmates through trench warfare, exhaustion and the growing distance between soldiers and civilians who cannot understand what the front has done to them. The Road Back follows returning veterans struggling to fit into post-war Germany, while Arch of Triumph centres on a German refugee doctor living illegally in Paris before the Second World War. Remarque's prose is direct and unsentimental, with physical conditions and emotional numbness described without heroic framing. His work fits anti-war fiction, twentieth-century European classics and exile literature. Read more Less
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