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The Devil's Captain : Ernst Jünger in Nazi Paris, 1941-1944 / Allan Mitchell.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (140 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780857451149
  • 9780857451156
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 838.91209 22
LOC classification:
  • PT2619.U43 Z687 2011
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Loner -- Chapter 2. The Road to Paris -- Chapter 3. Man About Town -- Chapter 4. Dreaming and Musing -- Chapter 5. Strange Interlude -- Chapter 6. Kniébolo and the Nazis -- Chapter 7 The Plot Against Hitler -- Chapter 8 Telling Omissions -- Chapter 9 Immediate Afterthoughts -- Chapter 10 The Correspondent -- Postscript Liebe Sophie -- Conclusion -- The Life and Work of Allan Mitchell 1933–2016 -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index
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 French capital, he regularly recorded in a journal revealing impressions of Parisian life and also managed to establish various meaningful social contacts, with the intriguing Sophie Ravoux for one. By focusing on this episode, the most important of Jünger’s adult life, the author brings to bear a wide reading of journals and correspondence to reveal Jünger’s professional and personal experience in wartime and thereafter. This new perspective on the war years adds significantly to our understanding of France's darkest hour.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Loner -- Chapter 2. The Road to Paris -- Chapter 3. Man About Town -- Chapter 4. Dreaming and Musing -- Chapter 5. Strange Interlude -- Chapter 6. Kniébolo and the Nazis -- Chapter 7 The Plot Against Hitler -- Chapter 8 Telling Omissions -- Chapter 9 Immediate Afterthoughts -- Chapter 10 The Correspondent -- Postscript Liebe Sophie -- Conclusion -- The Life and Work of Allan Mitchell 1933–2016 -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index

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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 French capital, he regularly recorded in a journal revealing impressions of Parisian life and also managed to establish various meaningful social contacts, with the intriguing Sophie Ravoux for one. By focusing on this episode, the most important of Jünger’s adult life, the author brings to bear a wide reading of journals and correspondence to reveal Jünger’s professional and personal experience in wartime and thereafter. This new perspective on the war years adds significantly to our understanding of France's darkest hour.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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