[Juenger-list] Further to Grass/Juenger

[Wahe at aol.com]

Simon,

agreed, he probably would have liked it, in the end a writer wants to be read 
and
he was human, wasn't he.

Although I'm not sure wether a Noble-prize publicity would have brought 
exactly
the mentioned books to more attention.

I remember about 25 years ago when I started to get interested  in Jünger I 
went through
the secondhand bookstores in Berlin. One owner presented "Die Zeitmauer" as a 
kind of
esoteric piece from the back.

But still I think there was no way the prize-committee would just have 
thought of him. I can somehow imagine
the uproar it would have caused in the media, a writer chosen of a war book 
that was not pacifistic.
Joschka Fischer, whom i consider politically bright, had to say in the same 
breath when he was asked about "Stahlgewitter"
that he read it but he preferred Remarque, just not to loose on popularity.

Greetings

Walter

In einer eMail vom 30.08.2006 13:38:35 Westeuropäische Normalzeit schreibt 
funboy at attglobal.net:


> Walter, I imagine on the contrary that Juenger would have been glad to
> receive the Noble prize, if only for the fact that it would have publicized
> his works and led to a greater readership and recognition of them. One of
> his main topics of discussion when I met him in Wilflingen in 1995 was the
> lack of recognition of certain of his works which he thought were
> particularly important. (Just for interest, in this respect he cited "An der
> Zeitmauer" and "Eumeswil".) His works have so much to contribute to
> contemporary man's understanding of his existential situation and he would
> have welcomed anything that led to people reading and benefiting from them
> more - sometimes the anarch cannot avoid the limelight.
> 
>