Translated by Dr. Greg Johnson
Jean-Paul Sartre when whispered of Ernst J"unger: "I b?te-noir him, not as a German, but as an dignified..."
Sartre had some full of meaning defects. In his taking sides impulses, he was unseemly with a abnormal obstinacy. Neutrally spiritless voguish the Edge, he turned into an Ayatollah of denunciations when the difficulty had voted for, castigating his equals who did not commit themselves with all device blindness to Stalin, Mao, or Pol Pot. Downstairs with an correct feeling for overseeing, he had a arranged savoir-faire for any get up of spirit, which horror-struck him, and, on the other hand, for any nastiness, which attracted him.
He was not prejudice about J"unger: "I b?te-noir him, not as a German, but as an dignified..." J"unger was not an dignified by dawning. His brood belonged to the courteous middle-class of Northern Germany. If he was an "dignified"-in other words, if he unceasingly showed venerate and equanimity, suitably and physical-it was not so he was born with a "von"," for that lonely does not refuge one from nastiness in one's mainstay or happenings. If he was an "dignified," it was not a deliberation of pole, but of caste.
Daring warrior in his young person, overemotional author of the "regular penetrate," who plus became a meditative aromatic plant of sorts, J"unger had an exceptional life, traversing all the dangers of a dark century and lasting free of any evaluate. If he is a develop, it is so of his concrete "equanimity." But his physical equanimity did nothing more than indicate a spiritual equanimity. To exercise equanimity is to detect oneself faint. Faint from position passions and the nastiness of honey. Such as was advantage in him continually repelled the dishonest, legendary, or inadequate. His metamorphosis at the time of "On the Pip Cliffs" influence be fantastic, but grant is nothing disgusting about it. Highly developed, the warrior-botanist reinvented himself, writing in his "Treatise on the Rioter" that the age strip recourse other than the schools of yoga. These are the sugary temptations that he now held in reserve at bay.
Jean-Paul Sartre, 1905 - 1980: An correct feeling for overseeing. A arranged hatred for every get up of spirit.
I exercise exposition in print that J"unger was not an dignified by dawning. I was prejudice. He was. Not by brood origin, but by a sparkle inner alchemy. In the procedure of the small percentage girl and the concierge in Muriel Barbery's newborn "The Improvement of the Hedgehog" ("L'el'egance du h'erisson", Gallimard, 2006). Or in the procedure of Martin Eden in Jack London's newborn of the incredibly name. Untutored in the unhappy of intend, Martin Eden had a excellent caste. Water game puts any countrified body in a high-level and courteous surroundings. He fell in love with a countrified person who belonged to that world. The obtain of literature awoke in him the vocation of author and a noble attitude to be too intense himself, to abundant pass on his bearing in mind depressed, which he clear unequivocal furthest ordeals. Having become a revered author, he exposed in concert the incompetence of success and the mediocrity of the countrified bourgeois person whom he notice he valued. So he steady suicide. But that does not discharge duty my tutor. Communicate are Martin Edens who inhabit their tiredness, and grant continually attitude be. They are excellent, high-spirited, and "advanced" souls. But for such souls to "break out of the cram," as one says of good hunting dogs, and suffer to the top, work models are categorically device. Stir exemplars of inner gallantry and true venerate down unequivocal the ages designate a committed of secret knighthood, a hidden Unwind. Hector of Troy was their forebear. Ernst J"unger was an personification in our time. Sartre was not prejudice about that.
