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Completed : Oparin Matvey

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Erich Maria Remarque (Erich Paul
Remarque) is a twentieth–century
German writer, a representative of the
"lost generation". He was born on June 22,
1898 in Osnabrück. Remarque's first
education was at a church school. He then
studied at a Catholic seminary. In 1916 he
went to war and was wounded.
In total, the writer has fifteen novels on
his account. Remarque's first works were
written in 1916. Later, the writer took the
pseudonym Erich Maria Remarque – in
honor of his deceased mother. Remarque
depicted his impressions of the brutality
of the war in the work "On the Western
Front without Change", which will be
discussed further. In addition, he
published several other similar works, but
all of them were burned by the Nazis in
1933.

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The anti-war novel tells about all the experiences
seen at the front by the young soldier Paul Boimer,
as well as his front-line comrades in the First World
War. Remarque used the term "lost generation" to
describe young people who, due to the mental
injuries they received in the war, were unable to
settle into civilian life

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Paul is a dreamy young man, a poet, an artist, after
graduating from school, under the pressure of
militaristic propaganda, he volunteers for the front
with his classmates. Every day of the war takes the
lives of someone's fathers, sons, and friends who
serve with Paul. Meanwhile, the newspapers
dispassionately report: "there is no change on the
Western Front"

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Тhe novel "On the Western Front without change" is one of the
brightest and most impressed me. The way the author describes
the situation on the front line in detail, using harsh epithets and
colorful metaphors, is very catchy and evokes emotions. Remark
correctly describes the feelings and thoughts of the main
character, an ordinary soldier. The way very young boys, who
have not really graduated from school, get into the most terrible
thing that can happen — to war, where they see murders, blood,
torment and immorality every day, and then return to peaceful
life, is quite plausibly and darkly described by the Remark. He
went through all this himself, participating in the war.
Heroes see death every day, lose friends, but the main thing is
that it does not make their hearts callous. In the darkness of the
night, they shed a stingy man's tear when they have to write to
the mother of a dead comrade that her son will never return.

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This is a very heartfelt story about the true horrors of
war and pain, which I recommend everyone to read.