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Book 1: All Quiet on the Western Front
The novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque was first published in 1929. It quickly gained worldwide recognition. The writer was at the front during the First World War and knows firsthand about all the horrors described in the novel. For many years, killing became their job. One of the discoveries of the book's protagonist: I always thought that everyone was against the war, until I found out that there are those who are for it, especially those who don't have to go to it.
Remarque describes the events so eloquently that the reader feels the whistling of shrapnel and exploding shells, hears the groans of dying soldiers. The author tells about the life of a soldier at the front and at home, his thoughts, fears and feelings. Tragic scenes alternate with funny situations, and this gives a real picture of the life of soldiers in wartime . He catches himself thinking that standing at the bedside of a dying comrade, he could have thoughts of wonderful English boots that would be lost when his friend was gone.
This book is about boys who never became men. They fell out of normal life. And after the blood, horror, injustice and senselessness of what they saw, these young people are unlikely to be able to return to normal. The war has disfigured them both physically and mentally. This can be clearly seen in the novel . Here are the most common reviews of the book "On the Western Front, No Changes": it touches the heart; you can't put it down; it changed the opinion about the war; whole generations of people pay a terrible price for the madness of politicians; the war is disgusting, senseless and unacceptable.
Do you want to understand the realities of today? Then we advise you to buy the book 1984. Surprisingly, the realities of the work, written in the dystopian genre more than 60 years ago, coincide in detail with what we observe today.
A model of the future by George Orwell in the book 1984.
Despite being a work of fiction, the book is so realistic that it turns the mind, and in such a way that you want to turn it back. The writer himself claimed that "the best books tell you what you already know". And the dystopian novel 1984 describes things that we ourselves have guessed, but were afraid to believe existed.
The novel presents a society of the future where there is a war of all against all. Events unfold in a state called Oceania. The political system of the country is English socialism, but in fact it is a brutal totalitarianism. The protagonist lives in London and works at the Ministry of Truth, diligently removing from documents anything that does not correspond to official propaganda. At the same time, he is a man who feels and thinks deeply, and therefore hates the totalitarian world order and dreams of revolution.
The main conflict is simple: the individual versus the system, the desire for love and freedom versus enslavement and dictatorship. But the author is merciless. The system he portrays cannot be defeated, because you cannot defeat something that has no heart, no brain, no meaning, no purpose for existence. As such, there is no ideology to look for flaws in: everything has been destroyed along with common sense. There is only power for the sake of power. And humanity has been sent to the slaughterhouse, where not so much bodies as souls are killed, since reason, memory, humanism, and love are outlawed.
In reviews of One Thousand Nine Hundred and Eighty-Four, readers call the work a genius. But they recommend the book not to optimists or even pessimists, but to cynical realists who are ready for the truth, no matter how bitter it may be.