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Original Title:	Eumeswil
ISBN:	0941419975 (ISBN13: 9780941419970)
Edition Language:	English

Eumeswil

Ernst Jünger

Hardcover | Pages: 384 pages

Rating: 4.29 | 244 Users | 23 Reviews

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Title	:	Eumeswil
Author	:	Ernst Jünger
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 384 pages
Published	:	May 1st 1994 by Marsilio Publishers (first published 1977)
Categories	:	Philosophy. Fiction. Literature. European Literature. German Literature. Science Fiction. Novels. Cultural. Germany

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Originally published in Germany in 1977, when Junger was eighty-two years old, Eumeswil is the great novel of Junger's creative maturity, a masterpiece by a central figure in modern German literature. Eumeswil is a utopian state ruled by the Condor, a general who has installed himself as a dictator and who dominates the capital from a guarded citadel atop a hill - the Casbah. A refined manipulator of power, the Condor despises the democrats who conspire against him. Venator, the narrator of the novel, is a historian whose discreet and efficient services as the Condor's night steward earn him full access to the forbidden zone, at the very heart of power. Every evening, while attending to the Condor and his guests at the Casbah's night bar, Venator keeps a secret journal in which he records the conversations he overhears, delineating the diverse personalities in the Condor's entourage while sketching out an analysis of the different aspects of the psychology of power. Venator's days are spent building a hidden refuge in the mountains, a hermetic retreat where he hopes one day to realize his dreams of utter self-sufficiency. In the meantime, however, he continues to pursue his career as a historian, using the magnificent tool that has been placed at his disposal - the "luminar", a holographic instrument that can summon up any figure or event in human history. Venator, in a word, embodies Junger's ideal of the "anarch" - a heroic figure whose radical skepticism and individualism are not to be confused with mere anarchism. Around the opposite figures of the dictator and the anarch, Junger weaves a hallucinatory and poetic rumination on the nature of history and on the mainsprings of political power. At once tale, essay and philosophical poem, Eumeswil offers a desolate and lucid assessment of totalitarianism by an author who witnessed its horrors firsthand.

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Ratings: 4.29 From 244 Users | 23 Reviews

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Thoughtful and provocative. Junger takes us away to a kind of modern Oriental despotism but shines back a reflection on humanist society. Incredibly funny at times. Book lacked a little bit of pace I thought but there were some stand-out moments, especially when he discussed topics like utopian socialism.

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

He defines the anarch in us all. He distinguishes between the anarch and the anarchist. Difficult and fascinating.

Ernst Jüngers "Eumeswil," one of the famous Germans last works, published when he was eighty-two years old, is often regarded as an exposition of libertarian thought. This is understandable, but completely wrong. Such a reading attempts to shoehorn concepts in which Jünger had little interest, or toward which he was actively hostile, into an exploration of unrelated themes. Moreover, it ignores that in this book, though somewhat masked, Jünger has more contempt for so-called liberal democracy

Not a book for plot lovers. It's more of a manifesto or screed in fictional form. I'm not complaining though. The writing is brilliant and it is endlessly quotable, but if you are looking for a story maybe look elsewhere. Fascinating philosophy and world building.

Eumeswil is the strangest book Ive read in approximately 6.5 years.* The book largely, almost entirely, consists of the main character speaking about his philosophy and view of the world, but the world in question is a fictional city-state ruled by a tyrant named The Condor. Its the first section of Dostoyevskys Notes from Underground, but written from the perspective of a bartender/historian in a made up totalitarian (post-apocalyptic, spacefaring) state, and its ten times longer than that

Meer een essay dan een roman, maar een uitstekende blauwdruk van het latere denken van Ernst Jünger die dit werk als krasse tachtiger schreef: van krijger naar woudloper naar anarch. Het kostte me wat moeite om "erin" te geraken omdat ik me verwachtte aan een iets of wat conventionele roman, maar zodra ik vertrokken was trok Jüngers' ideeënwereld me door de pagina's heen. Hoewel ik na een eerste leesbeurt meer geneigd ben Op de marmerklippen te verkiezen, wil ik deze roman graag een (of