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  • Paperback: 149 pages
  • Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Inc; Reprint edition (31 Dec 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0374521735
  • ISBN-13: 978-0374521738
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13.5 x 1.3 cm
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5.0 out of 5 stars Opposing Automatism in a Hive of Steel, 9 Nov 2000
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This review is from: The Glass Bees (New York Review Books Classics) (Paperback)
Born in 1895, and passing away at the Olympian age of 102, Ernst Jünger stands as one of the most important figures in modern literature. He is also one of its most controversial. In "The Glass Bees", Jünger presents a meditation on the dark side of technological progress. There is clearly some of the author himself in the novel's main protagonist, the gentlemanly cavalry officer Captain Richard. However, like his creator, Richard is no reactionary luddite. The Captain needs a job, and needs one badly. Therefore, he seeks employment in the Zapparoni works. This vast complex produces the miniscule mechanised insects of the book's title. Richard is alarmed by these seemingly sinister attempts to play God. Yet, simultaneously, he is fascinated, and becomes further embroiled in Zapporoni's surreal yet hyper-real world. The line between good and evil appears increasingly blurred, and Richard struggles to maintain his balance on this most precarious of moral tight-ropes. True to form, Jünger does not offer any easy solutions to the quandary in which the character finds himself. Nor does he comment on the rights and wrongs of Zapparoni's enterprise. This is not to belittle the incisiveness of Jünger's text, however. As always, his tightly wound words shimmer with an iridescent beauty. Through his flawless combination of poetic lushness and pointed brevity, Jünger proves himself a true master of the written word. Indeed, the author's typically detached observational style actually adds to the weight of his parable. To a considerable extent, Richard's Faustian relationship to technology is comparable to our own. As such, "The Glass Bees" remains as powerful and relevant to us now as ever. In fact, it is almost impossible to believe that the book was first published in 1957. At once novel, ethical treatise and philosophical tract, "The Glass Bees" is a fitting testament to the talents of a writer who, even now, is criminally underrepresented in the English language.
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