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== Reception == | == Reception == | ||
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The book was banned during [[Nazi Germany|Nazi rule]].<ref name=britannica>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Road-Back-by-Remarque|title=The Road Back | work by Remarque | Britannica|website=www.britannica.com}}</ref> | The book was banned during [[Nazi Germany|Nazi rule]].<ref name=britannica>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Road-Back-by-Remarque|title=The Road Back | work by Remarque | Britannica|website=www.britannica.com}}</ref> | ||
== Preservation == | == Preservation == | ||
Under the [[Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998]], the book will enter the [[public domain in the United States]] in [[2027 in public domain#United States|2027]]. | Under the [[Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998]], the book will enter the [[public domain in the United States]] in [[2027 in public domain#United States|2027]], with the first half of the serialized version expiring first in 2026. | ||
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Latest revision as of 17:46, 19 December 2025
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Wikidata image The Road Back, also translated as The Way Back,[1] (Template:Langx) is a novel by German author Erich Maria Remarque, commonly regarded as a sequel to his 1929 novel All Quiet on the Western Front.[1][2] It was first serialized in the German newspaper Vossische Zeitung between December 1930 and January 1931, and published in book form in April 1931.
Plot
Although the book follows different characters from those in All Quiet on the Western Front, it can be assumed that they were in the same company, as the characters recall other characters from the earlier novel. Tjaden is the only member of the 2nd Company to feature prominently in both books.
Set a few weeks after the end of All Quiet on the Western Front, the novel deals with the fall of the German Empire[2] and details the experience of young men in Germany who have returned from the trenches of World War I and are trying to integrate back into civilian life. Its most salient feature is the main characters' pessimism about contemporary society which, they feel, is morally bankrupt because it has allegedly caused the war and apparently does not wish to reform itself.
For example in one scene, a group of student veterans are forced to endure a corny speech by their professor who eulogizes their fallen comrades as having entered a “long sleep beneath the green grasses.” The student veterans mock the professor for his naive platitudes with one, Westerholt shouting, “in the mud of shell holes they are lying, knocked rotten, ripped in pieces, gone down into the bog—Green grasses!" [3]
Reception
Script error: No such module "Unsubst". The book was banned during Nazi rule.[2]
Preservation
Under the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998, the book will enter the public domain in the United States in 2027, with the first half of the serialized version expiring first in 2026.
Adaptations
- 1937, The Road Back – motion picture directed by James Whale and starring, among others, Noah Beery Jr. and Richard Cromwell.
English translations
- Arthur Wesley Wheen, as The Road Back. Published in 1931 by Little, Brown, and Company, McClelland & Stewart and G.P. Putnam and Co.
- Brian Murdoch, as The Way Back. Published in 2019 by Vintage Classics, Template:ISBN.[1]
References
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- 1931 German novels
- Anti-war novels
- Sequel novels
- Novels set in Germany
- Novels set during World War I
- Novels first published in serial form
- Works originally published in Vossische Zeitung
- German novels adapted into films
- War novels adapted into films
- Censored books
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- Novels by Erich Maria Remarque
- German war novels