Conrad

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Greetings one and all,

I new that there was some mention of Conrad in "Über die Linie". Only
one reference and nothing to do with Heart of Darkness. I hope it is
useful none the less. I have included the whole passage in translation.
I find it interesting that he should mention so many authors 
together in one passage, especially in relation to the overcoming of
Nihilism. 

Über die Linie. Ernst Jünger. p.18-19

my translation:

The whole takes place literally, yes firstly literary. That is also
unified and clear, more than the contemporary imagines it. The great
theme of the last hundred years is nihilism; equally whether it comes to
passive or active reading. In as far as it has nothing to do with value
at all, whether weakness or strength gives the work lights: these are
variants in one and the same game. In such varying authors as Verlaine,
Proust, Trakl, Rilke, and again in Lautreamont, Nietzsche, Rimbaud,
Barrés, there is nevertheless a lot in common. The work of Joseph Conrad
is therefore strange, because resignation and action are held in balance
by him and are tightly interwoven.  But pain is here as it is there, as
well as courage.  The great decisive point lies in that the annihilation
is felt first as suffering.  That often brings with it a last beauty as
in the forests of the first frost, also a finesse, that has not been
found since classical times.  Then the theme turns to resistance; the
question should be asked, how the human being in the face of
annihilation can stand in nihilistic maelstrom?  This is the turn in
which we find ourselves; it is a matter of concern in our literature,
that can be verified by the multitude of names, just to mention a few,
like Wolfe, Faulkner, Malraux, T.E. Lawrence, Rene, Quinton, Bernanos,
Hemingway, Saint Exupéry, Kafka, Spengler, Benn, Motherlant, and Graham
Green.  Common to them all is the experimental, the provisory of the
character, and the knowledge of the dangerous situation, of the great
threat; these are the two facts which determine the style, independent
of language  people and empires over a period of time-  that such a
style exists and not only lives in the technis, there can be no doubt of
this.

Any idea which Wolfe he is talking about? 

I think Olaf is also right. I remember some talk about Conrad in the
diaries. It's been a long time for me too. What about Eumeswil? Is there
any mention there?

Greetings from Thüringen,
Abdalbarr