[Eli Park Sorensen] War exhausts language, the art of storytelling
ViewpointsJul 5, 2012
“We are at rest five miles behind the front. Yesterday we were relieved, and now our bellies are full of beef and haricot beans. We are satisfied and at peace.” Thus begins Erich Maria Remarque’s great anti-war novel “All Quiet on the Western Front” ― “Im Westen nichts Neues” ― published in 1928, 10 years after World War I came to an end. The novel chronicles the war experiences of the German soldier Paul Baumer, a young school boy who joined the forces on the western front at the beginning of t