Despite seven wounds, author Ernst Junger glorified the war. Nov. 3, 2010— -- August 26, 1916, Guillemont, Somme region, northeastern France: "In front of my hole lies an Englishman who fell ...

102 Years in the Heart of Europe: A Portrait of Ernst Jünger (Swedish: 102 år i hjärtat av Europa) is a Swedish documentary film from 1998 directed by Jesper Wachtmeister. It consists of an interview ...

Born the year the Lumière brothers invented cinema (1895), Jünger seems more deserving of the phrase “I am a camera” than Christopher Isherwood ever did. His gaze is unblinking. He writes about war ...

As a teenager hungering for adventure, Ernst Jünger ran away from school in 1913 and joined the French Foreign Legion. His father eventually retrieved his delinquent child from North Africa, just in ...

2 Russians, 2 Jews, and a Puerto Rican walk into a bar ...

ON THE MARBLE CLIFFS (120 pp.)—Ernst Juenger—New Directions ($2.50). Future historians of 20th Century totalitarianism will puzzle over this paradox: the most effective anti-Nazi novel (On the Marble ...

Ernst Jünger, trans. from the German by Tess Lewis. NYRB Classics, $14.95 trade paper (144p) ISBN 978-1-68137-625-7 A man lives on top of marble cliffs where he distracts himself with collecting ...

The ZfGerm discusses problems of the history of German-language literature and contemporary literature, explores new theoretical approaches and actively participates in discussions about the ...