Insouciance
Gordon A. Craig, 17 July 1997
Ernst Jünger and Germany: Into the Abyss, 1914-45
by Thomas Nevin.
Constable, 280 pp., £20, January 1997,0 09 474560 9 Show More
by Thomas Nevin.
Constable, 280 pp., £20, January 1997,
“... the Weimar period and his service under Hitler may have seen in Venator a defiant self-portrait. Thomas Nevin, in what might be an oblique reference to the passage, reminds them that there is a difference between literature and politics and that ‘the Autor, the anarch, is a Rousseauist construct, safeguard of an egoism that takes itself as the only ... ”