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"Ernst Jünger's Eumeswil is a post-apocalyptic novel that combines elements of dystopian science fiction with a sustained philosophical reflection on the predicament of the individual in the face of the intrusive powers of the state and technology. Set in an undated future, the novel follows the reflections of Martin Venator, a historian living in the city-state of Eumeswil, ruled by a dictator known as the Condor. Venator regards himself as an "anarch," a figure who quietly accommodates show more himself to life within a dictatorship while simultaneously pursuing a life of inward resistance. As an anarch, Venator is a figure without loyalty to anyone but himself, yet at the same time he must also take careful measures to maintain the security of his current situation and to provide a means for escape in the event the government is overthrown"-- show less

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A most erudite, mature work of Ernst Junger, that surveys the historical landscapes of the omitted, and the elaborate, finery is mixed with succinctness. A great study of "ecce homo" that is deep for these with depth of insight, and intuitively flowing and wise for these that would like to be Neptunian and oneiric about the matter. With typically Jovial, precise, yet nobly drawn picture of an anarch, it is a book by a XXth century magi, and definitely worth reading! One can sense melancholic fire, yet astute vividness of renewal that a magician with scholarly background can write, and absorb to the innermost millieus of his nature! May thus, the "Jupiterian gaseuos fires not burn you" - to astronauts living, dead, and undying!
A most erudite, mature work of Ernst Junger, that surveys the historical landscapes of the omitted, and the elaborate, finery is mixed with succinctness. A great study of "ecce homo" that is deep for these with depth of insight, and intuitively flowing and wise for these that would like to be Neptunian and oneiric about the matter. With typically Jovial, precise, yet nobly drawn picture of an anarch, it is a book by a XXth century magi, and definitely worth reading! One can sense melancholic fire, yet astute vividness of renewal that a magician with scholarly background can write, and absorb to the innermost millieus of his nature! May thus, the "Jupiterian gaseuos fires not burn you" - to astronauts living, dead, and undying!
A most erudite, mature work of Ernst Junger, that surveys the historical landscapes of the omitted, and the elaborate, finery is mixed with succinctness. A great study of "ecce homo" that is deep for these with depth of insight, and intuitively flowing and wise for these that would like to be Neptunian and oneiric about the matter. With typically Jovial, precise, yet nobly drawn picture of an anarch, it is a book by a XXth century magi, and definitely worth reading! One can sense melancholic fire, yet astute vividness of renewal that a magician with scholarly background can write, and absorb to the innermost millieus of his nature! May thus, the "Jupiterian gaseuos fires not burn you" - to astronauts living, dead, and undying!
A most erudite, mature work of Ernst Junger, that surveys the historical landscapes of the omitted, and the elaborate, finery is mixed with succinctness. A great study of "ecce homo" that is deep for these with depth of insight, and intuitively flowing and wise for these that would like to be Neptunian and oneiric about the matter. With typically Jovial, precise, yet nobly drawn picture of an anarch, it is a book by a XXth century magi, and definitely worth reading! One can sense melancholic fire, yet astute vividness of renewal that a magician with scholarly background can write, and absorb to the innermost millieus of his nature! May thus, the "Jupiterian gaseuos fires not burn you" - to astronauts living, dead, and undying!

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Sämtliche Werke Dritte Abteilung: Erzählende Schriften III - Eumeswil
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Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
DDC/MDS
833.912Literature & rhetoricGerman & related literaturesGerman fiction1900-1900-19901900-1945
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PT2619 .U43 .E93Language and LiteratureGerman, Dutch and Scandinavian literaturesGerman literatureIndividual authors or works1860/70-1960

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