all quiet on the western front
The Problem of Language in "All Quiet on the Western Front"
For it is no easy undertaking, I say, to describe the bottom of the Universe; nor is it for tongues
that only
babble child’s play.
(The Inferno, XXXII, 7-9.)
Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, a novel set in World War I, centers around the
changes
wrought by the war on one young German soldier. During his time in …
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…institutions as the family, the schools, and the church. Moreover, the
war is so
chaotic that it infects the basic abilities, not the least of which is verbal, of humanity itself. By
showing how the
First World War deleteriously affects the syntax of language, Remarque is able to demonstrate how the war
irreparably alters the order of the world itself.
WORK CITED
Remarque, Erich Maria. All Quiet on the Western Front.
New York: Ballantine Books, 1984.
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