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German Literature

Statistics

Counts

Total Pages: 12.98
Total Words: 3246
Total Characters: 16371
Number of Sentences: 192

Averages

Words per Sentences: 16.91
Characters per Words: 5.04

Readability

Flesch Reading Ease: 61.21
Fog Scale Level: 11.89
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 8.92

German Literature

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 the war, Remarque's protagonist,
Paul Baumer, changes from a rather innocent Romantic to a hardened and
somewhat caustic veteran.  More importantly, during the course of this
metamorphosis, Baumer disaffiliates himself from those societal
icons--parents, elders, school, religion--that had been the foundation of
his pre-enlistment days.  This rejection comes about as a result of
Baumer's realization that the pre-enlistment society simply does not
understand the reality of the Great War.  His new society, then, becomes
the Company, his fellow trench soldiers, because that is a group which does
understand the truth as Baumer has experienced it.
            Remarque demonstrates Baumer's disaffiliation from the
traditional by emphasizing the language of Baumer's pre- and
post-enlistment societies.  Baumer either can not, or chooses not to,
communicate truthfully with those representatives of his pre-enlistment and
innocent days.  Further, he is repulsed by the banal and meaningless
language that is used by members of that society.  As he becomes alienated
from his former, traditional, society, Baumer simultaneously is able to
communicate effectively only with his military comrades.  Since the novel
is told from the first person point of view, the reader can see how the
words Baumer speaks are at variance with his true feelings.  In his preface
to the novel, Remarque maintains that "a generation of men...

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