These qualities make it a tough nut for would-be adapters to crack, though three directors have tried: Lewis Milestone in 1930, Delbert Mann in a CBS TV movie in 1979, and now Edward Berger for Netflix.
All Quiet on the Western Front may be the best war novel ever written, a work told entirely in first person and present tense that evokes the myriad aspects of combat-its gruesome horrors, routine banalities, feverish otherworldliness, and fervent camaraderie-with engrossing vividity, in language at once sparse and explicit, though never gratuitously graphic or sentimental.
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