![]() ![]() Vansant’s graphic novel employs much of Remarque’s prose verbatim, so Bäumer’s disenchantment, the whittling of his soul as his friends fall one by one in what he increasingly comes to see as a pointless exercise, is elegantly conveyed through the dialogue bubbles and text blocks. He embodies the Lost Generation, young men of learning and promise, completely unprepared for the horrors of a war that would change them forever… if they survived it. ![]() ![]() Remarque’s original, based on his own experiences, is the tale of Paul Bäumer, a 19-year-old German soldier in the trenches of WWI. “This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it.” It can be difficult to judge a graphic novel adaptation of a work as revered as All Quiet on the Western Front. ![]()
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