I just noticed where NYRB Classics has released a new translation of Ernst Jünger’s On the Marble Cliffs. My brief notes on New Directions’ 1947 translation by Stuart Hood can be found here. I highly recommend it without having read the new translation yet. It is one of the weirdest books I have ever read. […]
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Thanks to Arts & Letters Daily for linking to a review of Ernst Jünger’s recently translated World War II diary A German Officer in Occupied Paris. The article is titled “A Dandy Goes to War”, authored by Michael Lewis. I’ve been interested in Jünger since reading On the Marble Cliffs, probably the strangest book I’ve […]
On the Marble Cliffs by Ernst Jünger Translated from the German by Stuart Hood New Directions, 1947 Original publication in German in 1939 From The American Scholar, July 20, 2015: In 1970, the Scholar’s editors polled the literary lights of the day for their opinion on that book published in the past quarter of a […]