Re: EJ & Borges

[Carlos Mancini <cm4@worldnet.att.net>]

Umberto Rossi wrote:

> Guten Tag (oder Abend, oder Morgen)!
>
> Excuse me if I answer this only now, it is an old message, but unfortunately I was
> too busy these months.  I hope I'll be able now to take part more often to the
> conversation...
>
> > For sixty years Borges has followed my development. The first of my
> > books that he read was 'Bajo la Tormenta de Acero' ['The Storm of Steel'],
> > the translation of which in 1922 was commissioned by the Argentinean Army.
> > 'For me that was a volcanic eruption.'
>
> Lucky Borges!  He wasn't forced to stick to the 1925 version, or worse to the 1930
> rewriting.  I envy him!
>
> Na Ja, you are in wonderful places full of well-equipped libraries with all the
> versions of In Stahlgewitter.  Glueckliche Leute!  But I'm here in Rome (not
> excactly but almost), and the oldest version of IS was that of 1930 (correct me if I
> got the dates wrong...

Juenger met Borges in 1982. The translation he is referring to is from 1922. "Bajo
laTormenta de Acero", Biblioteca del Circulo Militar, Buenos Aires, 1922. It makes a lot

of sense that the argentine military have translated Juenger books since Argentineans
have always admired the Prussian spirit. As a former member of the Argentine Armed
Forces I remember the the almost reverence that existed among my comrades for the German
Army.  Back then was the first time I encounter Juenger.

Borges too must have had a lot of coincidences with Juenger. He supported the military
in Argentina and and his declarations in favor of the Military Junta who ruled the
country after 1976 are likely to be the reason why he never received the Nobel Prize.
The leftist Swedish Academy never forgave him for this (It make me laugh after I read in
the NYT the embarrassment of the Academy  in  the Rigoberta Menchu affair later to be
found a pathological liar)  Borges must been laughing too from the other side...


Carlos Mancini


Let us leave modern men to their "truths" and let us only be concerned about one thing:
:to keep standing among a world of ruins.
Julius Evola

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> Anyway it is a rather weird meeting.  But maybe not that much weird.
>
> Umberto Rossi
>
> "...io vedea la virtute esser spenta, e i vizi sollevati"
>                                       Gerolamo Savonarola