Anybody here read Ernst Jünger? He was one of Rafael Chirbes’s favorite writers and one of his main literary influences. I do everything I can to avoid reading about the World Wars, but if it’s really worth it from the literary point of view, I do it.
It’s interesting that Chirbes saw himself as very left-wing his whole life, but all of his favorite authors were of deeply conservative sensibilities. It makes sense because I wouldn’t be interested in spending so much time on a standard leftist prattler, but it goes to show that self-awareness is the rarest of gifts.
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