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A German Officer in Occupied Paris : The War Journals 1941-1945 by Ernst Junger
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN-10
0231127405
ISBN-13
9780231127400
eBay Product ID (ePID)
119562574
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
496 Pages
Publication Name
German Officer in Occupied Paris : the War Journals, 1941-1945
Language
English
Publication Year
2019
Subject
European / German, Military / World War II, Europe / Germany, Diaries & Journals, Europe / France, Literary
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections, History
Series
European Perspectives: a Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
32 Oz
Item Length
1 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2018-020094
TitleLeading
A
Reviews
These diaries are not only a remarkable document of the time, but bring us close to a strange but highly original person, always capable of a fresh response to the natural world, the atmosphere of Paris, and the hideous events that force themselves on his knowledge. Many of Jünger's texts have an inhuman chill; these diaries reveal his humanity., With the publication of these extraordinary, sometimes hallucinatory diaries. English speakers have the chance to read one of the great witnesses to 20th-century Europe's catastrophe., However uneven or bizarre some of the entries, the overall structure of the journals -- free-flowing, chaotic, and kaleidoscopic -- works. Together they act as a mirror reflecting a world where the center had not held., A German Officer in Occupied Paris is a remarkable slice of World War II, and makes for fascinating reading., A highly decorated German veteran of the First World War, Jünger (1895-1998) spent much of the Second as an officer stationed in Paris, where his journal is an almost daily record of the views and impressions of a well-read literary figure, entomologist, and cultural critic, now available for the first time in English. . . . Elliot Neaman is to be thanked for a comprehensive Foreword, as are Thomas Hansen and Abby Hansen for their translation of a most enigmatic set of Journals , and Columbia University Press for publishing them. They have made accessible the work of a cultured and literary person in service to a brutal regime., Jünger's war diaries, translated here with damning clarity by Thomas and Abby Hansen, are a fascinating, refined and disturbing record of the moral disasters of Nazism and collaboration., Once read, these [journals] are never forgotten. They are surely the strangest literary production to come out of the Second World War, stranger by far than anything by Céline or Malaparte. Jünger reduces his war to a sequence of hallucinatory prose poems in which things appear to breathe and people perform like automata or, at best, like insects., In Paris, Jünger tried to confront absolute horror with his chevalieresque idea of style, and the experiment is absorbing to observe, in its short-circuits and moments of illumination and ultimate burnout., [Jünger's] writings and insights have long earned him sage status in Germany. This, the first publication in English of his diaries from 1941-45, heightens his complexity but also makes him a more rounded figure., Expertly translated into English by Thomas and Abby Hansen . . . with an excellent biographical-critical foreword by Elliot Y. Neaman., Through these journals, we see Jünger consorting with resistors and collaborators, intellectuals and artists, drinking champagne, dining in sumptuous restaurants, and accompanying other officers to nightclubs, where naked women perform. Wandering around the city, he combs through antiquarian bookshops, stops in at galleries, discusses literature with friends, and acutely observes plants and flowers change with the seasons. He recounts in detail his dreams, nightmares, and musings on war. . . . A unique historical testimony., Jünger is an eloquent and informative witness to artistic life in occupied France, deportations, the burgeoning French Resistance and the conspirators against Hitler as well as the utter chaos after Stalingrad. This edition also includes extensive notes and a full glossary of all the people mentioned in the text., For English-speaking readers who do not know his work, A German Officer in Occupied Paris shows the many sides of this complex, elusive writer., Ernst Jünger's record of German-occupied Paris and the battlefields of the Caucasus is a treasure trove for readers interested in the history of the Second World War. Even more, though, it is a literary accomplishment of the first order, a document of European modernism, in which this master stylist leaves traces of the violence of the age between the lines of his crystalline prose., Politically ambiguous and polymathic, Jünger led a remarkable and long life (he died at the age of 102 in 1998) as a soldier, writer and philosopher. "I suffer from a hyperacute sense of observation," he said, not as a boast, but by way of admitting to a weakness. The foibles of the Nazis, the deathwatch beetles he collected, the facial tics of liars, the flick of a Parisian woman's hair as she bought a hat, the physical contortions of an executed deserter: all these came under the magnifying glass in his war journals, kept from 1941-45. Their publication in English, fluently translated, is a remarkable moment, presenting a model of how to navigate an age of extremism.
Dewey Edition
23
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
838.91207
Original Language
German
Table Of Content
Foreword, by Eliot Neaman Translator's Preface 1. First Paris Journal 2. Notes from the Caucasus 3. Second Paris Journal 4. Kirchhorst Diaries Notes Glossary of Personal Names Index
Synopsis
Ernst J nger was one of twentieth-century Germany's most important--and most controversial--writers. Decorated for bravery in World War I and the author of the acclaimed western front memoir Storm of Steel , he frankly depicted war's horrors even as he extolled its glories. As a Wehrmacht captain during World War II, J nger faithfully kept a journal in occupied Paris and continued to write on the eastern front and in Germany until its defeat--writings that are of major historical and literary significance. J nger's Paris journals document his Francophile excitement, romantic affairs, and fascination with botany and entomology, alongside mystical and religious ruminations and trenchant observations on the occupation and the politics of collaboration. While working as a mail censor, he led the privileged life of an officer, encountering artists such as C line, Cocteau, Braque, and Picasso. His notes from the Caucasus depict the chaos after Stalingrad and atrocities on the eastern front. Upon returning to Paris, J nger observed the French resistance and was close to the German military conspirators who plotted to assassinate Hitler in 1944. After fleeing France, he reunited with his family as Germany's capitulation approached. Both participant and commentator, close to the horrors of history but often distancing himself from them, J nger turned his life and experiences into a work of art. These wartime journals appear here in English for the first time, giving fresh insights into the quandaries of the twentieth century from the keen pen of a paradoxical observer., Ernst Jünger, one of twentieth-century Germany's most important and controversial writers, faithfully kept a journal during the Second World War in occupied Paris, on the eastern front, and in Germany until its defeat--writings that are of major historical and literary significance. These wartime journals appear here in English for the first time., Ernst Jünger was one of twentieth-century Germany's most important--and most controversial--writers. Decorated for bravery in World War I and the author of the acclaimed western front memoir Storm of Steel , he frankly depicted war's horrors even as he extolled its glories. As a Wehrmacht captain during World War II, Jünger faithfully kept a journal in occupied Paris and continued to write on the eastern front and in Germany until its defeat--writings that are of major historical and literary significance. Jünger's Paris journals document his Francophile excitement, romantic affairs, and fascination with botany and entomology, alongside mystical and religious ruminations and trenchant observations on the occupation and the politics of collaboration. While working as a mail censor, he led the privileged life of an officer, encountering artists such as Céline, Cocteau, Braque, and Picasso. His notes from the Caucasus depict the chaos after Stalingrad and atrocities on the eastern front. Upon returning to Paris, Jünger observed the French resistance and was close to the German military conspirators who plotted to assassinate Hitler in 1944. After fleeing France, he reunited with his family as Germany's capitulation approached. Both participant and commentator, close to the horrors of history but often distancing himself from them, Jünger turned his life and experiences into a work of art. These wartime journals appear here in English for the first time, giving fresh insights into the quandaries of the twentieth century from the keen pen of a paradoxical observer.
LC Classification Number
PT2619.U43S813 2018
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- 02 Aug, 2022
Wonderful book great insight to coping with war yet interesting comments about thing going on in Paris during and the whole world.
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- f***s (6)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseThe book I ordered was, first of all, priced VERY well. It's extremely rare, so I'm so happy they had it. It was furthermore in better condition than described. Shipping was fast, and it was packed with great care! Would definitely buy again from this seller.Washing Silk: The Life and Selected Poetry of Wei Chuang by Robin D. S. Yates (#335777913210)
- l***s (45)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseThe book I ordered is in excellent condition, signed and upgraded Owlcrate publishing. The Dust Jacket is pristine and illustrated on the inner cover with a premium inlaid, guilded cover. It was an absolute bargain at $14, extremely well packed (free shipping), and arrived very quickly. I highly, highly recommend this seller.