[24] December 12 - All Quiet on the Eastern Front?
Section outline
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Presentation: Anton
Assigned reading:
Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), excerpt.Aladár Komlós, “Remarque’s novel All Quiet on the Western Front,” Nyugat no. 10 (1929). [Original Hungarian]
Karen Petrone, The Great War in Russian Memory (2011), 8-15, 224-235.
Czech alternative to Komlós: Otto Rádl, "Půl milionú výtisků," Přitomnost 6 no. 17 (1929): 261-264.
Russian alternative to Komlós: review of Remarque, Oktiabr' no. 11 (1929): 190-192.
Ukrainian alternative to Komlós : E. R., review of Remarque, Червоний шлях no. 1 (1930): 210-212. [libraria.ua]
Polish alternative to Komlós : (b), review of Remarque, Nowy Dziennik no. 78 (1929): 4.
Austrian alternative to Komlós: Erwin H. Rainalter, "Erich Maria Remarque und sein Buch," Radio Wien (1929): 478-479.
Slovenian alternative to Komlós: "Zakonski roman pisatelja-milijonara," Ponedeljek (17 February 1930), 4.
Further reading:
Peter Gatrell, "Russia's First World War: Remember, forgetting, remembering," in Extending the Borders of Russian History: Essays in Honor of Alfred J. Rieber (2002), 285-298.
Peter Gatrell, Russia's First World War: A Social and Economic History (2005). [940.3/47 GAT]
Vera Tolz, "Modern Russian memory of the Great War, 1914-20," in Lohr et al., eds., The Empire and National at War (2014), 257-285. [940.3/47 LOH]
Image: "Excursion on the Marne," Chudak (1929).