/lit/ - Literature

Scholars and shitposters of /lit/, this is the time and thread to discuss Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front/Im Westen nichts Neues, an awful book full of "anaemic asphalt poetry".
Such was the opinion of Wilhelm Müller-Scheld, erstwhile president of the short-lived NS film academy, in his 1929 study and criticism of Remarque's book: "Im Westen nichts Neues. Eine Täuschung" ("All Quiet on the Western Front. An illusion") — which I chanced upon during my college years. Few years later, I'm reminded of Scheld as Netflix releases xeir adaptation, and before some retarded newfag gets triggered and cries shill: I pirated it and never paid shit, fuck your streaming sites you fucking zoomer, kill yourself.
Anyways I found a copy (ZVAB), but it was obviously written in Fraktur, and so I decided to render it in the antiqua style to practice my German and Fraktur reading and now I'm done and here's the link: https://files.catbox.moe/lzi7p9.pdf
It's in German, in the spirit of anon/Bernd I'd love to translate it in its entirety one day but that'll take considerable time and effort if I ever get around to it. In the meantime I'll be bringing you bits and pieces of the text along with my own reflections during the next few days. I hope anons will engage with this but even if this thread ends up really gay and just me I'll be certain that it's at least on-topic (thank dog the board's slow as balls). Of course there's the historical novelty, but other than that it's an interesting exercise in literary criticism. Once more and to be clear: Pic related is there to get your attention. Still I'll probably refer to the movie from time to time.
I had a lot of personal questions regarding how to make the text available and landed on a .pdf uploaded to catbox. This allows to play around with formatting easily which I'll get around to. If anyone knows a better way, please share. If there are krautfags around, I appreciate questions and comments.