Ernst Jünger - The Glass Bees BOOK REVIEW
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Literally only person i going to sit and watch and think and listen carefully how your give opinions on things and enjoying it in full 30 without skipping
I think you were too distracted by the author's background for this review. You should have focused more on the book itself.
Jünger was very knowledgeable in classical antiquity and the fact poets and prophets were traditionally compared to bees would not have escaped him. Perhaps this book also explores what happens when a civilization's beating heart and mind become replaced by an artificial and soulless mimesis.
This is Blade runner before do robots dream of electric sheep? Replicants, just like Three corp, or Wallace in 2049.
Great review! Jünger was one of the greatest writers of the XX century. This whole "was he a Nazi/was he not a Nazi" is a silly, he lived 102 years, was a 19 year old lieutenant in the Kaiser's army, lost a son to Nazi executioners, knew about the plot to kill Hitler and yet did nothing to stop it or to warn Hitler about it which would have been greatly beneficial to his military career, hung out and helped every artist and dissident in occupied Paris, and then lived on to write some of his best works after the wall went up. He saw the early days of German reunification and the birth of the EU, he was a maverick writer and lived more in one lifetime than most men live in a dozen lifetimes.
Have been waiting for this one. Your work on Jünger is always great
Really like Jüngers later work. Eumiswil was pretty good in my opinion.
Right when you said "It's quite dystopian" the video stopped for a Domino's ad. Talk about dystopian
Fascist according to Wyndham Lewis, "You as a fascist stand for the small trader against the chain-store; for the peasant against the usurer; for the nation, great or small, against the super-state; for personal business against Big Business; for the craftsman against the Machine; for the creator against the middleman; for all that prospers by individual effort and creative toil, against all that prospers in the abstract air of High Finance or of the theoretic ballyhoo of Internationalism." Wyndham Lewis, British Union Quarterly, 1937
Ernst Junger fought in WWI in the trenches. From this experience came one of the finest war books I've ever read, "Storm of Steel." There's a great audiobook version.
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Great review! I wanted to mention that Jünger was a personal friend and correspondent of Heidegger. You can see parallels between this novel and Heidegger’s thoughts on technology. The idea that man’s thoughts, once embodied in the form of a tool, actually acquire their own being. When we create something it’s often not apparent what it’s full potential is!
Our present cultural pass was seen plainly by some back in the 50s. PKD wrote "Autofac" and Fredrik Pohl "The Midas Plague" about the awful marriage of advancing tech and consumerism going on to pillage the world. Jünger was head-and-shoulders above those men in craft terms, but the fix was in and they all three, among others, saw it. As always a pleasure to hear your thoughts about life, literature, and the world. Thanks.
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With "On the Marble Cliffs" you definitely have something to look forward to. In fact, this novella was the first work of Jünger's that I read.
Ten years before Jünger, Georges Bernanos wrote an essay titled "France vs the Robots". It's a collection of critical texts about the new industrial society, with machinism and automation, that was emerging from the ruins of ww2. Dunno if an English translation is available.
Hope you can review the Forest passage in another video. ❤
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Thoughtful review of a complex subject, Cliff. I loved Jünger's On the Marble Cliffs(1939). I often confuse this title with the great The Glass Bead Game (1943) by Hermann Hesse. Another author of the time when Art had to be defended from the tarnish of history.
The psychological feature of having no fear is an interesting phenomenon. Like all human traits it too can be the result of many developmental paths that are very different but end up looking the same on the surface. In Jünger's case, maybe he was hardened by the war. Many Vietnam veterans have told that they found it difficult to stand everyday life after their time in war. It was bland and too safe - meaning that it was hard for ex-soldiers to experience excitement in things they had enjoyed before the war. It was also hard to connect with civilians who could not relate to war experiences.