Erich Remarque

 Everyone has read All Quiet on the Western Front, right? Well, Remarque wrote more than that. Oddly, the Fort Dix FCI's leisure library had two other novels than his most famous, I read them, and thought him rather good. He is till being published.

From  Remarque at Collier’s Writing about War for the American Public in the 1930s, the preface to Eight Stories (2018):

Some of Remarque’s Collier’s stories can be seen as astonishingly close to Freud’s case studies. They may take the form of fiction, but they are based on fact, often more solidly credible than what we find in, say, Freud and Breuer’s Studies in Hysteria, written by two male doctors analyzing female “hys￾terics.” Remarque gives us presenting symptoms,
manifestations of a pathology, and a pathway to a cure via remembering, reenacting, and abreacting in moments of therapeutic release.

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...But as the Collier’s stories reveal, there is far more to Remarque than what is told in that one novel, and the accounts of those who survived and suffered, struggled and strategized, reminisced and convalesced, deserve as much attention as the tributes to those who tragically never returned from the combat zone.

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