A the war journals, 1941-1945 : including "Notes From the Caucasus" and "Kirchhorst Diaries" Junger, Ernst 1895-1998 creator Hansen, Thomas S. (Thomas Stansfield) Hansen, Abby J. 1945- text bibliography biography nyu New York Columbia University Press [2020] 2020 monographic eng

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xxxi, 462 p. "Over an amazing 80-year career as a writer, Ernst Jünger (1895-1998) fought in WWI, became a leading writer of "soldierly nationalism" in the 1920s, and produced possibly the only anti-Nazi novel during the Third Reich, On the Marble Cliffs. Jünger's seeming moral ambiguities have made him the subject of much controversy in his home country. He has long been the subject of a series of highly charged debates about his work, and his presentation with the Goethe Prize (Germany's highest literary honor) in 1982 revived an old charge that Jünger had helped pave the way for fascism. The French, however, regard him as Germany's greatest twentieth-century author. Jünger's war diaries are important historical documents. He rejoined the army in 1941 and was sent to Paris, where he was in a unique position to observe the German occupation of France from the point of view of an occupier, but one who was not blinded by Nazi ideology. The First Paris Diary begins in 1941, when Jünger began his war duties as a mail censor of the occupying regime, and ends in October of 1942, as he leaves Paris to travel to the Eastern Front. Through his high-level contacts, Jünger was aware of the situation on the Eastern front and the atrocities being committed there. He was also a member of a secret circle of aristocratic officers, led by Rommel, who opposed Hitler's conduct of the war and were conspiring to arrest him in France in 1944 and turn him over to allies in exchange for lenient armistice conditions. In addition to descriptions of his official duties, the diaries describe Jünger's wanderings through Parisian bookshops and cafes, his conversations at salons with French intellectuals, and his reflections on books and nature (he was a trained biologist)"-- adult Ernst Jünger ; foreword by Elliot Neaman ; translated by Thomas S. Hansen and Abby J. Hansen. Translation of: Strahlungen. Reprint. Originally published: 2019. Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-422) and index. Junger, Ernst 1895-1998 Diaries Diaries Junger, Ernst 1895-1998 Homes and haunts France Paris Authors, German 20th century Diaries Paris (France) History 1940-1944 Paris (France) Intellectual life 20th century Germany History 1945-1955 PT2619.U43 G47 2020 9780231127417 (pbk.) 0231127413 (pbk.) 210205 on1224294733