 | A German Officer in Occupied Paris: The War Journals, 1941-1945 Subjects: Junger Ernst 1895–1998 -- Diaries; Authors German -- 20th century -- Diaries; Junger Ernst 1895–1998 -- Homes and haunts -- France -- Paris; Paris (France) -- History -- 1940–1944; Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Germany -- Histo; 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 (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. |
