Volume 28, Number 3 · March 5, 1981
An Aesthete at War
By Bruce Chatwin
Jardins et Routes, Diaries, Vol. I: 1939-1940
by Ernst Jünger
Christian Bourgois (Paris), 254 pp., 60 francs
Premier Journal Parisien, Diaries, Vol. II: 1941-1943
by Ernst Jünger
Christian Bourgois (Paris), 319 pp., 56.10 francs
OTHER WORKS BY ERNST JUNGER
Second Journal Parisien, Diaries, Vol. III: 1943-1945
by Ernst Jünger
Christian Bourgois (Paris), 427 pp., 70.10 francs
The Storm of Steel (In Stahlgewittern) currently available in English.)
by Ernst Jünger, translated by B. Creighton
reprinted by Howard, Fertig, New York, 1975. (Jünger's only work
German-speaking readers are referred to Jünger's complete
Sur les Falaises de Marbre (Auf den Marmorklippen) published in 1947 by introduction by
by Ernst Jünger, The English translation of On the Marble Cliffs was John Lehmann, again in 1970 as a Penguin Modern Classic, with an George Steiner
Gallimard, Paris, 1942 (available), (both out of print)
Ernst Jünger: A Writer of Our Time
by J.P. Stern
Yale University Press
On June 18, 1940, Mr. Churchill ended his speech to the Commons with the words 'This was their finest hour!' and, that evening, a very different character, in the gray officer's uniform of the Wehrmacht, sat in the Duchesse de la Rochefoucauld's study at the Château de Montmirail. Her uninvited guest was a short, athletic man of forty-five, with a mouth set in an expression of self-esteem and eyes a particularly arctic shade of blue. He leafed through her books with the assured touch of the bibliomane and noted that many bore the dedications of famous writers. A letter slipped from one and fell to the floor—a delightful letter written by a boy called François who wanted to be a pilot. He wondered if the boy was now a pilot. Finally, after dark, he settled down to write his diary. It was a long entry—almost two thousand words—for his day, too, had been eventful.
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