Reviews for All Quiet on the Western Front

The average rating for All Quiet on the Western Front based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-01-29 00:00:00 Gudmar Hauksson Partly essays and partly excerpts from essays or chapters from literary studies on Conrad's work. The editor has done a good job of organizing the material into common themes and inserting text from the Heart of Darkness to coordinate with a particular essayist's point. While giving me a better appreciation for Conrad's Heart of Darkness and the many levels from which a reader might interpret it, one begins to wonder how can all the critics be right? In one sense I gained more respect for Conrad and less for literary critics.

Review # 2 was written on 2021-07-18 00:00:00 Jeffrey Pubal I absolutely love the Literary Companion Series by Greenhaven Press. This book wasn't as interesting to me as some of the others; quite often there are a few essays on each of a fairly broad variety of topics. But in this one there was a LOT about the heroic archetype (it had its own section) and as a result I didn't adore it as much as other in the series. The first and third chapters felt more well-rounded to me. OTOH, it's possible that the asymmetry reflects the same tilt in the scholarship in general. There was only one essay about the language of the work, and only one small section within that essay about the literary conventions used. SAD FACE. I was really hoping to read more about that. I tried googling the author of that piece (Barry Tharaud) but I haven't been able to track him down to contact him and let him know I enjoyed it. Alas!