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Old 02-04-13, 06:44 PM   #8
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Some are tempted to see it as complementary, but I just say it is different and marks quite an impact in the reader: Ernst Jünger: Storm of Steel. LINK

In Germany, the author is seen as extremely polarizing, and many totally misunderstand him as being a warmonger and a defender of war glorifying the pathos and the heroic ideal of soldiers. That is absurd, if you take the time to learn a bit about his family background and maybe read a biography and understand what a noble, deeply humanistic and intelligent and educated man he must have been. The French are more clever regarding him: instead of demonising him like many Germans do, they have founded an institute that focusses on the research and examination on the man and his literature work, holding his writings in very high esteem, it seems to me.

Another major work by Jünger which he finished just before WWII broke out, is On the Marble Cliffs, in which he forsaw the horror that the Nazis were about to bring about Europe and that destroyed the continent.
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