Deutschsprachige Literatur

 The dreamy seventeen-year-old soldier Emil volunteers for service in World War I. First he is given an administrative post in a French village. He only learns what war means when he has to go to the front. This anti-war book in the form of a picaresque novel was published in 1928 at the same time as 'All Quiet on the Western Front'. It received little attention and fell victim to the National Socialists' book burning events in 1933. It was not until 2008 that authorship was clarified and the book was re-published in 2014.