The opening quotations are taken from: Parolles's speech, IV, iii; Kierkegaard Either/Or (O.U.P., 1946) I, 121; and Jünger diary Strahlungen ( Tübingen 1949) 592: 'Gut sind einige Bemerkungen zu Eigenarten meiner Sprache überhaupt. Doch bin ich nicht mit Näf [i.e. Hans Näf, in Die Weltwoche, Zurich, 24.10. 1941 (IX, no. 415, 5) ' Zu einem Buch von E. J.'] der Meinung, dass diese individuell begründet sind. Ich sehe darin vielmehr eine Wendung der Muttersprache - ein Einschneiden von Spuren, in denen andere Völker uns seit längerem vorausgegangen sind. Hier könnte ein Gegner hohen Ranges [i.e. any literary critic worth his salt], der meine Arbeit öberschaute, Einwände bringen, die auf die Gesamtlage sich grönden, doch die zu formulieren schliesslich nicht meine Aufgabe ist.'
karl O. Paetel: Ernst Jünger, Weg und Wirkung ( Stuttgart, n.d. [ 1949]); A. von Martin: Der heroische Nihilismus und seine Über windung: E. J.'s Weg durch die Krise ( Krefeld 1948); G. Nebel: E. J., Abenteuer des Geistes ( Wuppertal 1949); H. S. J. Becher: E. J., Mensch und Werk ( Warendorf 1949); M. Decombis: E. J.: L'homme et l'oeuvre jusqu'en 1936 ( Paris 1943); and E. Brock: Das Weltbild E. J.s: Darstellung und Deutung ( Zurich 1945). Only the last of these works is of any importance. It is a touching testimony of a writer's essentially uncritical devotion to his hero, a book which is informed by a genuine and profound philosophical passion, ex- ceeding both in its claims and in its detailed arguments Jönger's work at every important point. Brock's work reminds one of the painstaking efforts of those restorers who, finding here a forearm, there a few toes, devote themselves to the're'-construction of what in a peculiar way both is and is not another man's work; to my own theme of literary criticism Brock makes no contribution. Of the various dissertations on E. J. I have consulted F. SchonauerDie zwei Fassungen on E. J. 'Das abenteuerliche Herz'. . . ( Bonn 1947) and H. VogtDer Arbeiter. Western und Probleme bei. . . E. J. ( Güttin- gen 1945). Of shorter essays only those will be mentioned which have some direct bearing on my argument.
In Stahlgewittern was translated from the 4th German version ( Berlin 1926) by B. Creighton, and published with a preface by R. H. Mottram in London 1929 (also 1942). In my own quotations I have not used this or any other translation of E. J.'s works.
One of his brothers is the well-known poet Friedrich Georg Jünger, another is a physicist, a third a geographer. For biographical data I have had to rely on Nebel, op. cit.,372-375; Becher, op. cit., pass.; Brock, "E. J.s Leben u. Werk," in Schweizer Rundschau ( Nov. 1944) XLIV, 545-550.
'Aufgewachsen in einem Zeitalter der Sicherheit, wob in uns allen die Sehnsucht nach dem Ungewöhnlichen, nach der grossen Gefahr.'
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Publication Information: Book Title: Ernst Junger. Contributors: J. P. Stern - author. Publisher: Yale University Press. Place of Publication: New Haven, CT. Publication Year: 1953. Page Number: 53.
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