It was during this era that he evolved his pseudonym, replacing his middle name with his mother’s, and adopted his grandfather’s way of spelling his last name in order to distance himself from a sophomoric first novel. Concealing postwar trauma beneath a facade of wit and elitism, he began confronting his wartime torments, which incubated for a decade in thoughts and dreams. Within five weeks, keeping alert on strong coffee and tobacco, Remarque composed Im Westen Nichts Neues ( All Quiet on the Western Front) which sold a million and a half once published and was translated into twenty-nine languages. His contemporaries were his way of exorcising his own postwar trauma by recreating the amorphous hell of the western front. Because Remarque was a sincere patriot, he was unable to ignore Germany’s attempts to start another war. Josef Goebbles, Hitler’s propagandist, cranked out a stream of lies, linking Remarque with bohemians, Jews, communists and charging him with removing money illegally from the country, concealing Jewish ancestry and
It was during this era that he evolved his pseudonym, replacing his middle name with his mother’s, and adopted his grandfather’s way of spelling his last name in order to distance himself from a sophomoric first novel. Concealing postwar trauma beneath a facade of wit and elitism, he began confronting his wartime torments, which incubated for a decade in thoughts and dreams. Within five weeks, keeping alert on strong coffee and tobacco, Remarque composed Im Westen Nichts Neues ( All Quiet on the Western Front) which sold a million and a half once published and was translated into twenty-nine languages. His contemporaries were his way of exorcising his own postwar trauma by recreating the amorphous hell of the western front. Because Remarque was a sincere patriot, he was unable to ignore Germany’s attempts to start another war. Josef Goebbles, Hitler’s propagandist, cranked out a stream of lies, linking Remarque with bohemians, Jews, communists and charging him with removing money illegally from the country, concealing Jewish ancestry and