Re: Old and New EJ

[Gary Kern <gkern@ucr.campus.mci.net>]

Bertil Haggman wrote:
> 
> Thomas Friese wrote:
> 
> > Can't resist a last comment: why so much discussion on the old Junger and so little on the recent works, which are surely the product of an even wiser and more mature author - force of habit?
> 
> It is not true that this list
> is discussing the old EJ to
> a greater extent than the new.
> Personally I have been writing
> far too much on the list but my
> contributions have mainly focused
> on the EJ of the 1980s and 1990s.
> 
> Greetings
> 
> Bertil Haggman
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It seems to me that the list is fairly well-balanced, though the early
war-works rightly command a lot of attention.  Outside the list,
however, I detect in my random reading a desire to use the military
works against Jünger, to make him a Nazi or something detestable for
various dark reasons.  As I suggested sometime back, the same thing has
been done with Heinrich Harrer, author of SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET and the
subject of the film by that name.  A man's many decades of remarkable
work, his maturity and wisdom count for nothing to miserable
scandle-mongers, who want to make a flashy name for themselves. 
Solzhenitsyn has long been the subject of such attacks, and probably any
outstanding independent thinker will draw the nettling flies.

Incidentally, someone in the JL (Jünger List) recently whispered
something about our hero being old and perhaps, excuse me, not long for
this earth.  I regard such remarks as very insubstantial.  Ernst Jünger,
as we all know, is unsterblich.

GK