'All Quiet on the Western Front' is just sort of there isn't it? Every single trope of the First World War, and anti-war writing in general, is in there.
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There is a lot of evidence to back up the assertion that war fiction takes time. Many all-time classics of the genre, from Erich Maria Remarque's 'All Quiet on the Western Front' to Joseph Heller's 'Catch-22' to Tim O'Brien's 'The Things They Carried,' took over a decade to pen.
I am not a fan of westerns particularly.
'Slow West' is a western, and it's sort of a twist on the genre stylistically, I think, from what I understand going in.
'West' is one of those scripts that, when it came out, everyone wanted a piece of it and everyone wanted to be involved in it.
I can't envision an honest war novel that left war in a positive light.
There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.
I haven't read hardly any Westerns, to tell you the truth.
The eventual place the American army should take on the western front was to a large extent influenced by the vital question of communication and supply.
Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.
It'd be impossible to capture the feel of 'All Quiet on the Western Front' in a novel starring Mace Windu; 'All Quiet' is a tragic coming-of-age story.