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''All Quiet on the Western Front'' () is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I. The book describes the German soldiers' extreme physical and mental stress during the war, and the detachment from civilian life felt by many of these soldiers upon returning home from the front. The novel was first published in November and December 1928 in the German newspaper ''Vossische Zeitung'' and in book form in late January 1929. The book and its sequel, ''The Road Back'' (1930), were among the books banned and burned in Nazi Germany. ''All Quiet on the Western Front'' sold 2.5 million copies in 22 languages in its first 18 months in print.〔 〕 In 1930, the book was adapted as an Academy-Award winning film of the same name, directed by Lewis Milestone. ==Title and translation== The 1929 English translation by Arthur Wesley Wheen gives the title as '' All Quiet on the Western Front''. The literal translation of "Im Westen nichts Neues" is "In the West Nothing New," with "West" being the Western Front; the phrase refers to the content of an official communiqué at the end of the novel. Brian Murdoch's 1993 translation would render the phrase as "there was nothing new to report on the Western Front" within the narrative. Explaining his retention of the original book-title, he says:
The phrase "all quiet on the Western Front" has become a colloquial expression meaning stagnation, or lack of visible change, in any context. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「All Quiet on the Western Front」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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