Ernst Jünger, Trans. by Thomas S. Hansen and Abby J. Hansen
RaveThe Times Literary SupplementOur diarist is no ordinary German officer ... 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. The translators have given us a fluent, idiomatic English text, with only a few, though striking, slips ... editors...earn the reader’s gratitude by providing a list briefly identifying all the people mentioned by name in the text (though unfortunately not an index). Readers will also find indispensable the introductory biographical essay by Elliot Neaman, author of A Dubious Past: Ernst Jünger and the politics of literature under Nazism (1999).
