The Road Back

The Road Back
The Road Back  
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Cover of the 1st edition
Author(s) Erich Maria Remarque
Original title Der Weg zurück
Translator Arthur Wesley Wheen
Country Germany
Language German
Genre(s) War novel
Publisher Propylaen-Verlag (German)
Little, Brown & Co (English)
Publication date April 1931
Published in
English
June 1931
Media type Print (Hardback)
ISBN N/A
OCLC Number 909194

The Road Back (German: Der Weg zurück) is a novel by German author Erich Maria Remarque. The novel was first serialized in the German newspaper Vossische Zeitung between December 1930 and January 1931, and published in book form in April 1931. It 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 society. 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 All Quiet on the Western Front. Tjaden is also a named character in this book, but his behaviour is dissimilar to the previous Tjaden, so he might not be the same. The book can be considered to come chronologically after All Quiet on the Western Front and before Three Comrades. 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.

The book was banned during Nazi rule.

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