[lbo-talk] Junger and the Nazis (was, lbo, a den of right-wingers?)

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Wed Sep 14 02:14:42 PDT 2005



--- Dwayne Monroe <idoru345 at yahoo.com> wrote:


> I was introduced to Junger's work -- in translation
> -- by a religion Prof during
> my undergrad years.  Although his material was
> obviously off the course's topic,
> the Prof. felt that Junger's tight, starkly lovely
> sentence structures were worth
> learning.  I took the lesson to heart and hear an
> echo of Junger's writing voice,
> among others, even when composing letters to
> friends.
> 

BTW I started reading Gunter Grass' "My Century"
yesterday. That part of it corresponding to the WWI
years is actually a hypothetical meeting and series of
dinners between Junger and Remarque (of All Quiet on
the Western Front fame) in the 1960s.

It's quiet brilliant.

Nu, zayats, pogodi!


		
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