After I gave my speech last week in Rome, someone came up to me and said, “You have to read The Forest Passage by Ernst Jünger.” I wish I could remember who told me that, but I do remember that they ...

Ernst Jünger, the stylish supervillain of twentieth-century German literature, fit the profile of a war hero, however dubious the title may seem in retrospect. While serving in a Prussian infantry ...

The following essay is adapted from Clive James’ Cultural Amnesia, a re-examination of intellectuals, artists, and thinkers who helped shape the 20 th century. Slate is publishing an exclusive ...

102 Years in the Heart of Europe: A Portrait of Ernst Jünger (Swedish: 102 år i hjärtat av Europa) is a Swedish documentary film from 1998 directed by Jesper Wachtmeister. It consists of an interview ...

On the Marble Cliffs, by Ernst Jünger, translated from the German by Tess Lewis. New York Review Books. 144 pages. $14.95. Ernst Jünger is the intractable land mine of German literature. Demolition ...

World War I is often remembered as a story of senseless slaughter and lost generations, but for some soldiers the experience was far more complex. I explore the controversial perspective of Ernst ...

On A German Officer in Occupied Paris: The War Journals, 1941–1945 by Ernst Jünger. Just five days later, works by Picasso were among the “degenerate art” burned by the Germans in the gardens of the ...

ON THE MARBLE CLIFFS (120 pp.)—Ernst Juenger—New Directions ($2.50). Future historians of 20th Century totalitarianism will puzzle over this paradox: the most effective anti-Nazi novel (On the Marble ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The long-lived and controversial Ernst Jünger made his military name in 1914-18 as the youngest officer to win ...

WHEN Ernst Jünger became improbably old, his fame could be measured by the quality of his visitors, among them Chancellor Kohl and President Roman Herzog. What were their expectations as they ...