Literarischer Protest und heimliche Affirmation

das ästhetische Dilemma des Weimarer Antikriegsromans

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http://elib.tu-darmstadt.de/tocs/31901921.pdf This is a link to a German university (Darmstadt, about 35 km south of Frankfurt/Main). It provides the index of "Literarischer Protest und heimliche Affirmation". This book is a thesis and only comes in German. It is detailed description upon anti-war literature. On three books ("Im Westen nichts Neues" by Erich Maria Remarque, "Der Streit um den Sergeanten Grischa" by Arnold Zweig and "Vaterlandslose Gesellen" by Adam (?) Scharrer) Thomas Becker is paying special diligence to the analysis that choosing a novel form to tell about war´s cruelties turnes into a blowback as the authors´intentions lie in an appaling effect. Indeed, the novel form turned their books - unintendedly - into adventurous stories thus subliminally affirming war as source of ultimate adventure.