The Road Back: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

The Road Back is a novel by German author Erich Maria Remarque, written in 1931. It details experience of young men in Germany who have returned from the trenches of World War I and are trying to integrate back into the society. The book can be considered to come chronologically after All Quiet on the Western Front and before Three Comrades. Its most salient feature is the main characters' pessimism about contemporary society which, they feel, is morally bankrupt because it has allegedly caused the war and apparently does not wish to reform itself.