The Impact of the First World War on Europe and the War Literatur

Authors

  • Volker Jaeckel UFMG

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5902/1679849X25168

Keywords:

First World War, Trench Warfare, Naval Warfare, Great European War, War Literature

Abstract

Nowadays, one hundred years after the greatest sea and trench battles, a question is posed: how could this Great European War change not only the continental configurations, but also the concepts of war and war literature? Until the nineteenth century, many saw war as some heroic act through which men could prove their bravery in an open fight, facing the enemy directly. By means of new weapon technology, death comes invisibly: gas, submarines, long-range artilleries, mines, airplanes, tanks, and machine guns. War strategies are altered and the feeling of a worthy fight in order to defend one’s homeland is ended. In this article, the great disillusion with war will be exemplified in the following romances: Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet in the Western Front (1929); concerning land warfare, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez’s The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1916), as well as Reinhard Göring’s Expressionist drama Seeschlacht (1917).

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Author Biography

Volker Jaeckel, UFMG

Especialista no ensino de alemão como língua estrangeira pela Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (1997); mestrado em Letras hispânicas e germânicas - Freie Universität Berlin (1991); doutorado em Literatura Brasileira (Filologia Românica) - Friedrich-Schiller- Universität Jena (2003); Pós-doutorado em Comunicação Audiovisual na Universidade de Valência (2012)

References

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BLASCO IBÁÑEZ, V. Los cuatro jinetes del Apocalipsis. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2008.

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GÖRING, R. Seeschlacht. Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag, 1918. Disponível em: <http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/seeschlacht-612/1>. Acesso em 28 de fev. 2016.

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Published

2016-12-11

How to Cite

Jaeckel, V. (2016). The Impact of the First World War on Europe and the War Literatur. Literatura E Autoritarismo, (17). https://doi.org/10.5902/1679849X25168