The devil's captain : Ernst Junger in Nazi Paris, 1941-1944 / Allan Mitchell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mitchell, Allan, 1933-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jünger, Ernst, 1895-1998.

Jünger, Ernst.

Jünger, Ernst, 1895-1998--Homes and haunts--France--Paris.

Jünger, Ernst, 1895-1998--Friends and associates.

Germany. Heer--Officers--Biography.

Germany.

Soldiers--Germany--Biography.

Soldiers.

Authors, German--20th century--Biography.

Authors, German.

Paris (France)--History--1940-1944.

Paris (France).

Paris (France)--Intellectual life--20th century.

Paris (France)--Biography.

France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.

France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (139 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Author of Nazi Paris, a Choice Academic Book of the Year, Allan Mitchell has researched a companion volume concerning the acclaimed and controversial German author Ernst Jünger who, if not the greatest German writer of the twentieth century, certainly was the most controversial. His service as a military officer during the occupation of Paris, where his principal duty was to mingle with French intellectuals such as Jean Cocteau and with visiting German celebrities like Martin Heidegger, was at the center of disputes concerning his career. Spending more than three years in the Frenc

Contents:

The loner

The road to Paris

Photograph section I

Man about town

Dreaming and musing

Strange interlude

Kniebolo and the Nazis

Photograph section II

The plot against Hitler

Telling omissions

Immediate afterthoughts

The correspondent

Photograph section III

Postscript: Liebe Sophie.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780857451156

0857451154

OCLC:

860618276