"Hijacking" of destiny?

"Hijacking" of destiny?

Ernst Jünger: Another European destiny (Paperback)

Customer Review

After reading and have been marked by two flagship works of Ernst Jünger ('Storm of Steel "and" On the marble hills'), I wanted to find the man who, in less than two decades, had have written two books as exceptional but so different. So I rushed to what appeared to be one of the most recent works on this author. What a desappointment! If no complaint can be made about the style or quality of writing, it is difficult to say as much in substance. I noted in particular two major weaknesses. The first relates to the period 1920-1933, however, crucial in Jünger's personal history and that of Germany. Venner we 'say' that Jünger, after being a champion of the most virulent nationalist right German pulled away quickly enough Nazi ideology. This one could imagine reading in parallel of the two books mentioned above. However we would have liked a little more convincing dissection of the phenomenon: the book does not, in my opinion, not the least depth analysis of the political development of Jünger. Say and repeat that the man was a poet-soldier, a politician seems still a little short. Moreover, we did not feel that Venner had actually used the many sources available, such as the collection of all political articles published by Jünger. But the author does control enough German to carry out such an exercise?
The second source of disappointment relates to the very promising subtitle of the book: 'Another European destiny'. It must indeed expect the eponymous epilogue of the book to find a presentation of one of the last works of Jünger 'The Gordian knot'. This presentation is, I seem, the opportunity for the author to expose, 'in cauda venenum' theses 'traditionalists' he defended with some consistency, it is true, since the war in Algeria. In short, reading this book left me a double malaise: the first not to have really better understand the very complex personality of Jünger; it then being in front of a clever and dangerous instrumentalisation 'of a great German writer of the 20th century by the European ultra-right nationalist 21st century ...

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