Review of Nevin book on Juenger

[Bertil Haggman <bertil.haggman@helsingborg.se>]

Lord Ralf Dahrendorf has reviewed T.Nevin's book _Ernst Juenger
and Germany_ in the 28 February issue of Times Literary
Supplement.

For American friends who might not have direct access to TLS a
few quotes from the review:

"Helmut Kohl visited Juenger him (in Wilfingen, note), not for
the first time, on his hundredth birthday;... Francois Mitterand...
looked more at home, for not only do the French elites like the
German author as much as he likes France, but Mitterand also shared
that cyniscism which comes from an ability to translate moral
issues into aestethic metaphors."

Lord Dahrendorf writes about a photo session with FAZ and quotes
Juenger: "The century held many surprises. One can therefore
find oneself in the most varied situations, but what one might
call 'the melody of life' is there from the beginning and until
the ship sinks. Like the Titanic, where it is played once again,
where the same melody is repeated for one last time."

The reviewer notes that _Der Arbeiter, Herrschaft und Gestalt_ (1932)
is untranslated into English. 

It is a pleasure to find, at the end the review, these words (a first in
TLS, I believe):

"We still await an analysis which places one of the great
authors of the century in his context".

Indeed. One of th great authors of the century should
be rewarded the Nobel Prize in 1997, to eradicate the scandal
of 1996 when an unknown Polish poetess with a Stalinist background
was presented with the prize.

Bertil Haggman
bertil.haggman@helsingborg.se