Volume 40, Number 12 · June 24, 1993
The Anarch at Twilight
By Ian Buruma
Aladdin's Problem
by Ernst Jünger, translated by Joachim Neugroschel
Marsilio Publishers, 136 pp., $19.00
A Dangerous Encounter
by Ernst Jünger, translated by Hilary Barr
Marsilio Publishers, 187 pp., $21.00
Ernst Jünger will be ninety-eight this year. He was smaller than I imagined. But he looks fit and still remarkably handsome. His head is crowned with thick, white hair, brushed forward, giving his rather hawkish face the sculpted air of a marble Roman senator. Jünger begins each day by jotting down his dreams. Then he takes a cold bath. He recently had a dream about Hitler.
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