Re: Open readings

[John King <fs6y097@public.uni-hamburg.de>]

Hi Kenneth!

>sounds good.  i must warn you, i really don't know much about the Man.
>While working on my thesis, which deals with German war narratives, I
>stumbled over Storm of Steel.  I knew I found something good.  Honesty,
>Poetry, Glory in Death, Comradery.  All the things that make a good
>arm-deodorant comercial.

Or Gillette ;-) But I think we might have the perennial "which version of
"In Stahlgewittern" did you read" problem again. If you read the Creighton
translation then it was the 3rd, pumped up Nationalist version, which EJ
attempted to functionalise for his role as revolutionary conservative.
Incidentally, I'd just like to hint that Jünger did not think the
nationalist ballast important for his English readers. But if you had been
working on German war narratives, surely J should have been high on the list
along with Remarque, Zweig, Beumelberg, Schauwecker to name but the first
few names to come into my head?

On the subject of the First World War, do list members know the book
"Princes of the Trenches" by Ann Linder? It attempts to give an overview of
German WW1 narratives. I've attached a review I wrote for the "Journal of
European Studies", should be in print soon.

>All this intellectual jargon is fascinating, but as I am rather new to his
>literary works, I have little input.

Intellectual jargon. You ain't seen nothing yet :-)

JK

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