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the long warred's avatar

God ! It was Junger who delayed the translation?

I wondered why it wasn’t in English until 2017, as far as I can tell.

“As you know, I have been trying to prevent this translation for decades. “ - EJ

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Christian Roy's avatar

Feb. 6, 1980's translation confuses Jünger's French publisher Christian Bourgois (no 'e'!) with 'the Bourgeois' as social type... Also, 10/10/1980: "the figure is not to be understood either as a class or as economic or national greatness." seems a mistranslation of eine ... Grösse, a quantity, as in a known or unknown quantity, a type of phenomenon: here economic or national.

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