Local literati rate candidates' reading lists Oct 31, 2008
Among John McCain's favorite books, culled from news reports, are "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway, "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque and Edward Gibbon's "History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.". According to Barack Obama's Facebook profile, his favorite books include "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison, "Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville and Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Self-Reliance.". (San Francisco Chronicle)
The Asquith Analogy Sep 11, 2008
The assumption of the war s inevitability which conveniently absolved the guilty parties of their personal responsibility became the prevailing view as it took hold in literary portrayals of the war from Erich Maria Remarque and Karl Kraus. Yet in spite of the blunders of European statecraft in the years leading to war, every stage in the conflict s escalation was eminently preventable. (The American Conservative)
In The Footsteps Of Private Lynch Sep 9, 2008
An Australian National University historian, Bill Gammage, said it was Australia's version of the iconic World War I novel All Quiet On The Western Front, written by a German soldier, Erich Maria Remarque. Robert Cox, writing in the Illawarra Mercury, wisely noted that the beauty of Lynch's book was that the story was "told in an authentic Australian voice - dispassionate, laconic and free of histrionics, false heroics and phony literary flourishes". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
From fibs to great fiction Jul 13, 2008
It felt significant that several of his literary idols - including Norman Mailer, Ernest Hemingway, Erich Maria Remarque and James Jones - had served in the military. "I thought that as a writer it was something that I should know about." The lessons of combat proved less glamorous, though: "I discovered within myself the temptations to abuse authority and power.". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Sydney Pollack May 27, 2008
Bobby Deerfield (1977) was a maudlin romance from a story by Erich Maria Remarque in which Al Pacino s Formula 1 racing driver falls for a girl who is dying of an incurable disease. And Absence of Malice (1981) was a run of the mill vehicle for Newman and Sally Field focusing on investigative journalism. (Telegraph.co.uk)
A soldier who picked up his pen Feb 24, 2008
Local Search Site Search. THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING. (Boston Globe)
Writer John Dos Passos Jan 16, 2008
Like his contemporaries and Erich Maria Remarque, Dos Passos utilized fiction to show the hellish aspects of combat and the complexity of the common soldier. By now, Dos Passos had become part of what was known as The Lost Generation, joining other American writers in the group such as Hemingway, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald and poet e.e. cummings. (Suite101.com)
'Voices of the Great War' - Exhibit on display at Thomas Cooper Library Aug 30, 2007
Features of the "Voices of the Great War" exhibit include: Ancestral Voices -- the literary heritage of the war; Eager Voices -- Rupert Brooke, Charles Hamilton Sorley and others; Subaltern Voices -- Siegfreid Sassoon, Wilfred Owen and Robert Graves; Echoing Voices -- McCrae's "In Flanders Fields" and Alan Seeger's "Rendezvous"; Voices from the Ranks -- Henri Barbusse, Frederic Manning and others; Isaac Rosenberg -- from the "Joseph Cohen Collection;" Voices of Dissent -- Clifford Allen,... (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Which books capture their era? Jul 3, 2007
All Quiet on the Western Front (1929) Erich Maria Remarque. Goodbye to All That (1929) Robert Graves. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
The Great War hits great heights Feb 23, 2007
R.C. Sherriff wrote this humane closeup of World War I in 1928, just a year after Erich Maria Remarque wrote "All Quiet on the Western Front" from his harrowing memories of the German trenches. Seventy-eight years after the Broadway premiere, Sherriff's own lesser-known slice of aching battlefield life turns out to be no less exquisitely humane. (Newsday -- Entertainment)
