by Ernst Jünger · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483102718
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«We travel through the text», wrote Ernst Jünger. And that literary and vital journey was inaugurated by Jünger with a teenage escape to African lands shortly before the Great War and was prolonged with initiations into war horror, ambushes, psychedelic trips and approaches to the wall of time tanned in the pain of History. African Games (1936) narrates the disappointment of a teenager who has sublimated the black continent through the mythifying prism of his youthful readings. The young Berger, Jünger's alter ego, flees his paternal home in search of adventures in the heart of Africa. Influenced by picaresque literature and the training novel, Berger's adventures, animated by a fascinating troupe of vagabonds and Conradian antiheroes, conclude with a bitter moral. To this new translation of African Games is added an unpublished text that represents the best epilogue to the novel: Letter to a Missing Friend (1930), a melancholic song to friendship and the adventurous heart, an elegiac epistle addressed to one of the most suggestive characters in African Games, Benoit, the veteran comrade of the Foreign Legion who seduced Jünger with his stories about the wonders of opium and Indochina and seconded him in his frustrated attempt at desertion.
Ernst Jünger was a German author, soldier, philosopher, and entomologist who became publicly known for his World War I memoir Storm of Steel. A prolific writer of over forty books, Jünger wrote particularly in the furtherance of conservatism and against what he perceived as the spiritual oppression of man.
