What Remarque and Hemingway did can really be considered a worldview revolution: for the first time in the history of literature, they showed trench warfare from the inside, from its physical side - the very "pornography of war" in all its brutally exposed physicality," writes writer Oksana Zavozhko in her author's column. On the canonical texts of anti-war literature and their influence on the modern vision of war - in the author's column especially for DW.