- The Italian publisher Guanda has released the new translated edition of the Diary of the Eminent German Existentialist and Writer Ernst Younger entitled "Radiations.. Diaries 1941-1945" (Irradiazioni) , a critically important 544-page historical and literary document that offers vivid and decisive testimony to the horrors of World War II from a unique military and philosophical perspective. *The book traces the personal memoirs that Younger wrote during his call-up for military service as a company commander with the rank of captain, moving between the corridors of the General Staff of the Military Command in occupied Paris, and the fierce front lines of the Eastern Front in the Caucasus, all the way to his late isolation in Kirchhurst. The text reflects the writer's deep intellectual transformation and his gradual and rigid separation from the Nazi regime and its military leaders, especially after his personal bereavement at receiving the news of his son's death on the Italian front. Younger's style is characterized bywith absolute precision and boldness in observing the sharp contradictions of that era, as it combines the depiction of horror and brutality areas that targeted isolation in the Caucasus Front, with cultural evenings and elite intellectual records that tried to preserve the remnants of the ancient European civilization amid the rubble.In the course of this diary, Younger asserts that her writing was not just a documentation of events, but an intellectual contribution and harsh self-training for justice and adherence to truth amid a general climate of misinformation and destruction. A cautious neutral outlook and rigorous narrative clarity give this work exceptional expressive power, making Radiation not only a testament to the human and political catastrophe of the twentieth century, but one of the most beautiful and deepest philosophical books written by Younger in his long career.
Radiation. Memoirs 1941-1945
الإشعاعات. مذكرات 1941-1945
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Bibliographic Data
| Author | |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Gwanda Publishing HouseWebsite |
| Country | Italia |
| Primary Category | Languages and Literature |
| Published | 2025 |
| Language | Italian (IT) |
| Pages | 544 pages |
| Edition | First |
| Dimensions | 14×22 |
| ISBN | 978-8823535688 |
| Translation | Not Translated |
About Ernst Jünger
Ernest Younger's (1895-1998) works in the Gwanda catalog: in the "Library of Phoenix": the solitary meditator, the radiator, in the steel storms, the scissors, the invisible fishing, the worker, the approaches, the gardens and roads, the cottage in the vineyard, the crossing of the Atlantic. In PhoenixNarrators: Yumiswell, Heliopolis, Fire and Blood, Glass Bees. In Phoenix Notebooks: Adventurous Heart, African Games, Revarol, Peace, World State. In ContemporaryProse: Two…
