A German Officer in Occupied Paris - The War Journals, 1941-1945

List of contents

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

About the author

Ernst Jünger (1895–1998) was a major figure in twentieth-century German literature and intellectual life. He was a young leader of right-wing nationalism in the Weimar Republic. Among his many works is the novel On the Marble Cliffs, a symbolic criticism of totalitarianism written under the Third Reich.

Elliot Neaman is professor of history at the University of San Francisco and the author of A Dubious Past: Ernst Jünger and the Politics of Literature after Nazism (1999).

Thomas Hansen, a longtime member of the Wellesley College German Department, is a translator from the German.

Abby Hansen is a translator of German literary and nonfiction texts.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Hansen, Ernst Junger, Ernst (Klett-Cotta) Junger, Ernst Jünger
• Assisted by: Elliot Neaman (Foreword), Abby J. Hansen (Translation), Thomas S. Hansen (Translation), Hansen Thomas S. (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.01.2019
• EAN: 9780231127400
• ISBN: 978-0-231-12740-0
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 240 mm x 30 mm
• Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book; France, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military, Diaries, letters & journals, Germany, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / European / German, Second World War, Diaries, letters and journals, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General