War Experience and Literature by Ernst Junger, Ivan Meshekov and Geo Milev Cover Image

Фронтови опит и литература при Ернст Юнгер, Иван Мешеков и Гео Милев
War Experience and Literature by Ernst Junger, Ivan Meshekov and Geo Milev

Author(s): Vladimir Sabourin
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Пловдивски университет »Паисий Хилендарски«
Keywords: World War I; war experience; war diary; expressionism; Ernst Jünger; Ivan Meshekov; Geo Milev
Summary/Abstract: This essay examines Ernst Jünger’s war books focusing on War as Inner Experience (1922). The war experience recorded for the first time in Jünger’s War Diary (1914 – 1918) goes into his war books following a “massive stylization” (Helmuth Kiesel) and a Nietzschean philosophy-of-life conceptualization. This literary shaping and rewriting in War as Inner Experience is contrasted with the literary approaches to World War I in Ivan Meshekov’s diary In the Trenches (1917) and Geo Milev’s expressionist prose poems On the Doiran Lake (1916) and The Horror of the Fire Scourge (1916?).

  • Page Range: 120-131
  • Page Count: 12
  • Publication Year: 2020
  • Language: Bulgarian