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F. Roger Devlin: Ernst Jünger’s 20th-Century Life

18 Janvier 2025 , Rédigé par Le Fil d'Ariane Publié dans #Allemagne, #France, #Ernst Jünger, #Lettres, #Guerre

F. Roger Devlin: Ernst Jünger’s 20th-Century Life

Dominique Venner, Ernst Jünger: A Different European Destiny, Arktos Media, Ltd., 2024, 212+xvii pages, $23.95 paperback

The German writer Ernst Jünger (1895-1998) remains relatively unappreciated in the English-speaking world despite the availability of his major works in translation. In France as well as his native land, however, he has long been regarded as one of the major German authors of the last century. His life and works not only spanned almost the whole of the 20th century but, as he himself once remarked, seemed to resonate with its momentous events like a seismograph. As Dominique Venner — of whom more later — writes: “Ernst Jünger is the witness of the successive faces of European destiny throughout this cruelest of centuries.”

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https://www.unz.com/article/ernst-jungers-20th-century-life/

F. Roger Devlin: Ernst Jünger’s 20th-Century Life
F. Roger Devlin: Ernst Jünger’s 20th-Century Life
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