The Adventurous Heart: Figures and Capriccios
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| Rating | : | 4.89 (721 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0914386484 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 184 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-12 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
But equally important to Jünger is an intuitive receptivity that comprehends matters directly at the midpoint of the matter, making laborious determinations of the periphery superfluous—intuition is a master key that opens all, and not just the individual doors of a house. The 1938 version of Ernst Jünger's The Adventurous Heart: Figures and Capriccios must be considered a key text in the famous German writer's sprawling oeuvre. With these methods, Jünger attempts to penetrate to the hidden harmony of things that lies behind the dualities of surface and depth, image and essence. This superb translation offers Anglophone readers a fresh look at one of twentieth-century Germany's most extraordinary writers.. In this volume, which bears comparison to the Denkbilder of the Frankfurt School, Jünger assembles sixty-three short, often surrealistic prose pieces—accounts of dreams, nature observations, biographical vignettes, and critical reflections on culture and society—providing, as he puts it, "small models of another way of seeing things." Here Jünger experiments with a new method of observation and thinking, unitin
The vignettes collected here show a comparable degree of compression, but Jünger reverses the direction in his intense glance to search along that other road, down a street lined by another set of addresses, where he looks for traces of a surviving eternity, a persistent nature, rather than intimations of revolution." --Marcus Bullock, author of The Violent Eye: Ernst Jünger's Visions and Revisions on the European Right"The Adventurous Heart is the last revolt of romanticism against the traditional world of normative laws and bourgeois beliefs. Jünger invents a strange somnambu
"Not for Beginners" according to Steven Larsen. I read an interview with the translator where he suugested that this might be a good place to start reading Junger. I disagree.First, this collection of surrealistic vignettes might reveal much, but is too cryptic and just too difficult to make sense of for someone new to Junger's work. The language isn't difficult or opaque lexically or grammatically, but rather the concepts are tough to pull out of the essays. The introduction is helpful to getting a handle on the essays, but perhaps not enough. I have, however, found the book, The Violent Eye to be hel. Five Stars A+