Marcel Reich-Ranicki - A Swedish comment

["Bertil Häggman" <bertil.haggman@helsingborg.se>]

The quote underneath is interesting. In most cases
the views on EJ are divided. Either he is largely
admired (and rightly so, in my opinion) or attacked
(mainly because he was a nationalist in the 1920s).
Personally I have never seen this reaction but the RR
comment in my view points to a basically negative
attitude and one of course asks: why was EJs writings
"fremd" (alien). That indirectly would mean that the
whole history of the 20th century is more or less 
alien to RR.

A more negative attitude toward EJ is revealed
in a recent issue of Der Spiegel. I am thinking
of Profesor Breuer in Hamburg. If I remember
correctly he has written on Conservatism in the
Weimar Republic and is one of those who has
not managed to read on in the rich literature
of EJ after World War II.

With Juengerian greetings

Bertil Haggman


>"Aber ich erlaube mir in aller Bescheidenheit, doch nicht ohne leise
>Genugtuung darauf aufmerksam zu machen, daß ich einem berühmten, häufig
>bewunderten und gepriesenen deutschen Prosa-Schriftsteller keine einzige
>Kritik gewidmet habe. Ich meine Ernst Jünger. Sein Werk ist mir fremd. Ich
>fühlte mich berufen zu schweigen."