How pointless all human thoughts, words, and deeds must be, if things like this are possible! Everything must have been fraudulent and pointless if thousands of years of civilization weren’t even able to prevent this river of blood, couldn’t stop this torture chambers existing in their hundreds of thousands. Only a military hospital can show you what war is.
前陣子用零碎時間片片段段地看完了西線無戰事。這本書比我預期的更加沉重,以基層士兵的視角第一線描寫戰爭的殘酷,無人區的屍橫遍野、殘肢斷軀、屍臭腐臭,傷兵的生不如死,戰友在死亡邊緣的痛苦哀嚎,防空洞裡的幽閉恐懼與精神崩潰……
面對極致寫實、充滿畫面感的描述,我往往看個幾頁就會需要休息一下,才能夠繼續往下看。我不想引述那些細節性的文字,我完全不想重看那些章節,太難受了。
戰後曾經的兄弟回到各自的社會階級,曾經的戰友情很快就顯得不堪一擊。看到此處,即便這無損書中角色們相互扶持的情義帶來的感受,也不由使人心又一酸。
(原文是德文,這本是英譯版,我覺得翻得很讚)