> das Wort durch die Tat, die Tinte durch das Blut, die Phrase durch das > Opfer, die Feder durch das Schwert. Goethe, as usual. Wort, Tat, Kraft... > What is most interesting here is not the opportunity to go and point the > finger at Jünger - we all know, hopefully, that he was a leading > extreme-right publicist. Rather, it is the ***explicit rejection of > literary writing*** And that some seven months after "Sturm" was published > in the "Hannoverscher Kurier". "Sturm" was a literarily advanced, > multi-layered, multi-perspectival novel about a writer, about writing, > about literature in modernity and about the impossibility of adopting > fixed positions. Keep in mind the meeting of leutenant Sturm with the Engineers officer who had fought the underground mine war in the Mons area. That is the real warrior, because he has direct access fith the elemental forces: Feuer und Erde. Sturm is somewhat ashamed of his intellectual role. And maybe he reflects what Juenger's feelings were at that time. Nice to see Sturm quoted--and praised. I think it's one of Juenger's best achievements, to be compared with Afrikanische Spiele and the Sanduhrbuch. And it really is a bold experiment. Oppressed by elemental heat in Pomezia and listening to the Who, Umberto Rossi Se non sei sul web, hai torto! If you're not on the web, you're wrong!
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