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Abetz, Otto, xvi
Abetz, Suzanne, 276
abnormalities, 106–7
Abt (captain), 55, 144
Abu Telfan (Raabe), 132
Acts of the Apostles, 294
Adah, 371
Adam, 205, 235, 302, 370
Adler (Cavalry captain), 345
Adventures of Lazarillo de Tormes, The (Les Aventures de Lazarille de Tormes), 162
Adventurous Heart, The (Jünger, E.), xii, xiv, xxv
Africa, x–xi
African Games (Afrikanische Spiele), xiv
Afterwards (Apres Coup) (Man), 321, 332
Against the Grain (À Rebours) (Huysmans), 384
Agamemnon, 347–48
Aksakov, Sergey Timofeyevich, 186
Aladdin and the Magic Lamp, 22
Alain-Fournier, Henri-Albin, 284–85, 286
alchemy, 352
Alerme, Marie Marcel Etienne Michel, 291, 292
Alexander the Great, 361
Alhoy, Maurice, 219, 225
Altar of the Last Judgment (Bosch), 287
anarchy, 135; nihilism and, 290
ancestor-worship, 198
Ancien Régime, 104
Andere Sette (The Other Side) (Kubin), 54
Andronikos I, Komnenos, 58
Angelis, Maximilian de, 137
Annunzio, Gabriele d’, 93
Anticatones, 20
anti-Semitism, xvi, 242, 372, 406n21
Apocalypse, 325
Apocrypha, 187, 194, 198, 249
Appeal (Jürgen, E.), 227–28, 229, 231, 232, 234, 236, 241, 248–49, 256, 272, 274, 276, 286, 307, 316; for Ziegler, 344, 346
“Appeal to the Youth of the World” (Jünger, E.), xix
Arbeitsdienst, 400
Aretz, Heinrich von, 264–65, 266
Aristogeiton, 39
Aristotle, 261
Arland, Marcel, 338
Arletty (actress), 23
Armand (acquaintance), 42
Art Nouveau, 242
Art of the Duel, The (L’Art du Duel) (Tavernier), 92
Assadoulaef, Umm-El-Banine (Banine), xviii, 108, 181, 190, 191, 197, 222, 241, 306
Assassination Attempt by Fieschi, The (L’Attentat de Fieschi) (Burnand), 294–95
astrology, 24–25, 27, 306
atheism, 187, 229
Atlantis Before Its Destruction, 45
Auber, Madame, 84
Aubrincourt, d’, 98
Autement, Elisabeth, 347
Authentic Narrative of the Loss of the American Brig “Commerce” (Le Naufrage du Brigantin Américain Le Commerce) (Riley), 64–65
autographs: of Proust, 50; of Wilder, 181
automatism, 68
Axel (L’Isle-Adam), 110
Baader, Franz Xaver von, 376
Baal, 59, 352
Baartmann, Sara “Saartjie,” 243–44
Baeumler, Alfred (Kastor), 107
Bagnes, Les (Alhoy), 219, 225
Baldass, Ludwig, 287
Balzac, Honoré de, 78, 334
Banine. See Assadoulaef, Umm-El-Banine
Bannier, Jean, 106
Banu, Peri, 210, 311
Banville, Théodore de, 347
Bargatzky, Walter, 276
Bariatinski (princess), 57, 62
Barlach, Ernst, 282
Barre, Chevalier de la, 9
Barrès, Maurice, 194
Bashkirtseff, Marie, 169
“Bateau Ivre” (Rimbaud), 164
Baudelaire, Charles, xxv, 3, 59, 74, 187; grave of, 81; Schmid and, 88
Bauer, Bruno, 251, 300
Baumgart, Fritz Erwin, 172, 178, 180, 195, 235, 256, 269, 315, 327; chess with, 234
Bäumler, Alfred, 408n60
Becerillo (dog), 317
Beckmann, Max, 200
beetles, 4, 17, 18, 43, 164, 183, 212, 239–40, 250, 296, 311, 325, 345, 348–49, 362, 393, 394–95; dream of, 253; happiness from, 178; in Russia, 148–49
Begbie, Harold, 96–97
Bekker, Balthasar, 202
Bellarmin, 286, 418n121
Belle Epoque, 242
Bellini, Vincenzo, 248
Benito Cereno (Melville), 26, 251
Benjamin, Walter, xxvi, 406n26
Benn, Gottfried, xiii, xiv
Benoist, Charles, 236
Benoist-Méchin, Jacques de, 93, 191–92, 273; death of, 346
Benvenuti (Italian pianist), 283
Bérard, Christian Jacques, 171
Berdyaev, Nikolai Alexandrovich, 186, 202
Bergson, Henri, 25, 242
Berlioz, Louis Hector, 258
Bernanos, Georges, 60
Bernasconi (bookbinder), 256, 272
Bernhardt, Sarah, 25
Besançon, Jean Julien, 293
Best, Werner, xv
Betz, Maurice, 38–39, 40, 66
Bible, 94–95, 102–3, 301; Vulgate, 236. See also New Testament; Old Testament; specific books
Biéville de Noyant (count), 221
Bignou, Etienne, 269
birds, 120, 125; dreams of, 358; pigeons, 98
Birotteau, César, 202, 214
birth, x
Bismarck, Otto von, 288, 383
Black Front (Schwarze Front), 226, 415n58
Blitzmädchen, 8
blood and soil (Blut und Boden), xiv, 203
Blood Beacon (Blutleuchte) (George and Schuler), 201
Blood of a Poet (Le Sang d’un Poete) (film), 172
Bloy, Léon, 25, 70, 73, 80, 102, 105–6, 162, 169, 171, 194, 201, 217, 238, 308, 335, 351–52, 365, 367, 375, 403; on death, 190; diaries of, 364; Georget and, 322; as inhuman, 282. See also specific works
Bluebeard, 69
Blum, J., 148
Blumentritt, Günther, xxi
Blunck, Hans Friedrich, xii
Blut und Boden (blood and soil), xiv, 203
Bodemeyer, Bodo von, 280
Boëthius, Anicius Manlius, 84–85, 231, 260, 303, 422n58
Bogo, 266–67, 292, 308
Böhme, Jakob, 204, 376
Bohrer, Karl-Heinz, xii
Boissière, Jean Stanislas Jules, 33, 35
Bon, Henri, 120
Bonnard, Abel, 193–94, 245, 276, 291, 316
Bonnard, Pierre, 239
Book of Baruch, 214
Bosch, Hieronymus, 9, 37, 149, 206, 287, 297, 365, 418n122
Boudot-Lamotte, Madeleine, 46, 51, 59, 62, 66, 71, 289
Bouet (madame), 230
Bourdin, Paul, 291
Bourget, Paul, 109
Bousquet, Jacques, xvi
Bousquet, Marie-Louise, xvi, 171, 173, 181, 188, 268–69
Bouyer, Frédéric, 54
Boyen Fortress, 120
Braque, Georges, 259, 261–62
Brasillach, Robert, xv
Brave New World (Huxley), xiii, 222, 229, 354
Brazen Lady (Madame Sans-Gene) (film), 23
Brecht, Bertolt, xiii
Bréguet, Louis, 333
Breitbach, Joseph, xiii, xvii, 26
Breker, Arno, 47, 276
Brief Histories (Historiettes) (Tallemant des Réaux), 84
Brinon, Fernand de, 23
Brisson, Adolph, 333
Bronnen, Arnolt, xiii
Brontë, Emily, 172, 269
Brontë Family, The (La Famille Brontë) (Traz), 83
brothels (hôtels de passe), 11
Browne, Thomas, 148
Brown Revolution, xiii
Brown Shirts, xiii
Bruck, Moller van den, xi
Brueghel, Pieter, 149
Büchner, Georg, 172
Bullock, Marcus, xii
Bülow, Bernhard Fürst von, 232
Bunyan, John, 222, 223
Burckhardt, Carl Jacob Christoph, 44, 90, 271, 367
Burnand, Robert, 294–95
butterflies, xvi, xx, 12, 60, 91, 242, 256, 262
Byron, Lord, 307, 309, 310, 311
Caesar, 220, 258, 295, 361
Cailaux, Henriette, 99
Caillot, Jacques, 24
Cain, 205, 372
Calmette, Gaston, 99
Calvet (acquaintance), 50
Cange, Charles du Fresne Du, 218
cannibalism, 177, 310; mythology and, 353–54; with shipwrecks, 384–85
Capoceda, Giulio, 76
Captain Raggad, the Mountain Splitter, 210
Capua, 213
Cardot, Jeanne, 239
Cargouët (comtesse), 72
Carthage Punique (Punic Carthage) (Lapeyre and Pellegrin), 184
Carus (imaginary son), 42, 389
Casanova, Giacomo Giovannie chevalier de Seingalt, 202, 245
Cashel Byron’s Profession (Shaw), 238
Catalogue of Coleoptera (Catalogus Coleopterorum), 256
Cathedral, The (Huysmans), 368
“Cats, The” (Baudelaire), 74
Causes Celebres (Richet), 265–66
Cazotte, Jacques, 85, 210
Ceillier, Raymond, 221
Céline, Louis Ferdinand, xvi, 191–92; Gould and, 174. See also Merline
Cellaris. See Niekisch, Ernst
cemeteries, 33, 81, 82–83, 282, 342, 352; American pilots in, 363, 366; of Bashkirtseff, 169; with Charmille, 76–77; for dogs, 317; of father’s grave, 160–61; Feast of the Assumption and, 236; flowers in, 82, 209–10; in Russia, 119, 127–28, 134, 137, 148; secret, 173; Verlaine in, 287
Cetti, Francesco, 244
Chamfort. See Roch, Nicholas-Sébastien
chance, 85
Charcot, Jean Martin, 281
Charet, Jean, 323
Charmille (Sophie Ravoux), 34, 39, 41, 42, 43–44, 75, 89, 98, 170; Bagatelle, and, 91–92; cemetery with, 76–77; departure from, 113; farewell to, 339; flowers and, 93, 111; on flying dreams, 44; at Renaud et Armide, 185; Spleen de Paris from, 236; on yellow stars, 69–70
Charterhouse of Parma, The, 366
Charybdis, 141
Chateaubriand, François René viconte de, 318
Chavan, A., 258
Cheka, 52
Cherubini, Luigi, 77
chess, 172, 234; dreams, 360–61
chickens, 95–96
China in Miniatures (La Chine en Miniature) (Breton), 106
Chinese Characteristics (Les Moeurs curieuses des Chinois) (Smith), 307, 309
Chirico, Giorgio de, 77
Christianity, xix–xx, 70; of Germanic tribes, 50; names in, 256; reversion to in lost cause, 185
Christmas: in Paris, 283; in Russia, 141–43, 147; at war’s end, 355
Cicero, 61; Jouhandeau, M., and, 253
City and Republic of Venice, The (La Ville et la République de Venise) (Limojin de Saint-Didier), 76
civil defense (Volkssturm), xxiii, 350–51, 376, 400, 401; Schmitt in, 384
Classic Fossils (Fossiles Classique) (Chavan and Monotoccio), 258
Clausewitz, Carl von, xvii, 137, 154, 169
Clémenceau, Georges Benjamin, 11, 217, 292
Closais, des (unidentified), 80, 84–85
Cocteau, Jean, xv, xvi, xvi–xvii, 32, 33, 35, 40, 62, 66–67, 86, 172, 185, 226, 275; with Calvet, 50; on Proust, 192; Renaud et Armide by, 46
coincidence, nihilism and, 303
collaboration with the Holy Spirit (collaboration du Saint-Esprit), 22
Colored Stones (Bunte Steine) (Stifter), 360
Colshorn, Frau, 117
Condition of the Working Class in England, The (Engels), 410n40
Confession (Kanne), 40
Conrad, Joseph, 87, 290, 385
Conservative Revolution, xii
Consolation of Philosophy, The (Boëthius), 422n58
consonants, 103; vowels and, 215
Contemporary History (Zeitgeschichte) (Sild, M., and Sild, T.), 195
Contes Noirs (Saint-Albin), 56
Counterfeiters (Faux-Monnayeurs), 62
Cranach, Lucas, 149
Crapouillot, 260
Crébillon, Claude Prosper Jolyot, 105
Crimean War, 280, 399, 412n26
Crisenoy, Baron de, 92
Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy, The (Schmitt), xii
Crome, Hans, 185
Cuchet, Gasper Joseph, 55
cult of self (Ichbezogenheit), xxiv
Cupid, 293
Damiens, Robert François, 112
Damned, The (La Bas) (Huysmans), 389
Damrath, Rudolf, 308, 327
Dangerous Liaisons (Les Liaisons Dangereuses), 72
Darwin, Charles (and Darwinism), 207, 301, 343, 357–58
Daudet, Léon, 281
David, 57
Day in the Life of the Aged Goethe, A (Ein Tag aus dem Leben des alten Goethe) (Mann), 23
Days of Man, The (Les Jours de l’Homme) (Besançon), 293
Dead Souls (Gogol), 142, 164
Déat, Marcel, 218
Death and Its Problems (La Mort et ses Problèmes) (Bon), 120
“Death of Ivan Ilyich, The” (Tolstoy), 64
Deborah, 387
Debussy, Claude-Archille, 25, 101–2
Decimus Junius, 409n10
Decline of the West, The (Spengler), xi, 251, 416n83
Defoe, Daniel, 241
Deguerry, Gaspard, 289
Dejean, Pierre François Auguste comte de, 253
Delacroix, Eugéne, 182, 271
Delitzsch, Franz, 372
Delvau, Alfred, 223
Democracy in America (Democratie en Amerique) (Tocqueville), 251, 299
Demolition Contractor (“Entrepreneur de Demolitions”) (Bloy), 322
demonic power, 186
Deperthes, Jean Louis Hubert Simon, 377–78
De Profundis, 387
Desbordes, Jean, 255
désinvolture (detachment), xxv–xxvi, 58
Dessau, Leopold von, 308
detachment (désinvolture), xxv–xxvi, 58
Deuteronomy 28:33, 45
Devëria, Eugène François Marie Joseph, 196
Devil in Love, The (Diable amoureux) (Cazotte), 85
Dezäire, Joseph (Le Zaire), 176
Dictionary of the Green Language; a Comparison of Parisian Argots (Dictionnaire de la Langue Verte. Argots Parisiennes Compares) (Delvau), 223
Didier, Edouard, 274, 321, 328
Didier, Lucienne, 274, 321, 323, 324, 327, 328
Didot (publishing company), 104, 162
Diels, Rudolf, 400, 421n19
Dietloff (captain), 126
Dietrichsdorf (major), 120
Disasters of War (Desastros de la Guerra) (Goya), 56, 409n49
discharge, 351
Dix (sergeant), 148
Döblin, Alfred, xiv
Doctoresse (Sophie Ravoux), xviii, 26–27, 32, 34, 38, 40, 47, 59–60, 75, 82, 90, 102, 254, 260, 275, 292, 330; cooking by, 104; final breakfast with, 338; flowers and, 109, 255, 316; husband of, 203, 272; police and, 199–200; Schlumberger and, 192, 268; sciatica of, 50; Valentiner, K., and, 49, 80, 110, 184; Vernes and, 306–7; at The Wise Women, 58
Doctrines of the Dying (Doctrina Moriendi) (Gerson), 75
Dodsley, Robert, 411n71
dog cemetery, 317
Donders, Adolf, 255
Don Juan (Byron), 310, 311
Donoso (friend), 42
Don Quixote, 100, 106, 311
Donysos (Otto), 376–77
Dostoevsky, Fyodor Michaelovitch, 59, 65, 135, 152, 267, 276–77, 356; Huxley and, 255
Down There (La-Bas) (Huysmans), 182
Doyle, Conan, 104
dreams, 414n16; abnormalities in, 106–7; of air raids, 117; of beetles, 253; of birds, 358; of bookplate, 86; of caves on Crete, 116; of Cellaris, 377; chess, 360–61; of climbing mountain, 91; of clouds, 91; of corpse of murdered man, 205; of doctors, 110; of examinations, 367–68; of father, 108–9, 238, 242–43, 289, 348, 364; of fish in a pond, 48; on fish physiology, 63; of flying, 44; of Gothic buildings, 76; of grandfather, 264; of guestbook, 258; of Head Forester, 332; of insects, 253; of Japan, 313; of Jouhandeau, M., 285; of Jünger, Ernstel, 400; of Jünger, F. G., 110–11, 147, 368; of Kniébolo, 186, 396; of Li-Ping, 284; meanings of, 47; of Perpetua, 178, 246, 363; prophetic, 83, 86, 152–53; of racing cars, 384; in Russia, 151, 152–53; of salamander, 57–58; Schmitt and, 162; of snakes, 81, 246; of Socrates, 271; solipsism and, 94; with thoughts and no images, 92; of trenches of World War I, 85–86; of wall of ancient fortification, 71; of worlds advanced as ours, 305
Drescher, Maggi, 39, 56, 62
Droste-Hülshoff, Annette von, 398
Du Bos, Charles, 55
Ducasse, Isidore, 164
Duk-Duk dancers, 28
Dumas, Alexander, 70, 72
Dumont-d’Urville, Jules Sébastian César, 69
Duse, Eleanora, 44–45
Ecclesiastes 10:1, 251, 417n85
Eckelmann, Hermann, 228
Eckermann, Johann Peter, 184, 301
Eckhard, Meister, 284
Ėducation Sentimentale (Sentimental Education) (Flaubert), 25
Eichhof, 158, 190, 413n39
“Eisvogel” (“Ice Bird”) (Jünger, F. G.), 162
Eliade, Mircea, 118, 318
Elijah, 392
Elisabeth Linne Phenomenon, The (Das Elisabeth Linne-Phanomen) (Thomas, A. W.), 280
Elisha, 392
Emanations (Strahlungen) (Jünger, E.), xv
enchanted gardens, 189
Enchanted World (Verzauberte Welt) (Bekker), 202
Encounters: Drugs and Intoxication (Annäherungen: Drogen und Rausch) (Jünger, E.), xxvi
Engels, Friedrich, 410n40
Epting, Karl, 218, 338, 406n20
Erdmannsdörffer, Bernhard, 258
Eros, 39, 90, 210, 293
Eschmann, Ernst Wilhelm, 192; Valentiner, K., and, 184
Essay of Indirect Criticism (Essai de Critique Indirecte) (Cocteau), 86
“Essay on Peace” (Jünger, E.), 401
“Essay on the Destruction of Hamburg” (Friedrich, A.), 322
Essays Toward a General Esthetic (Essais pour une Esthetique Generale) (Migot), 328
Esther, Book of, 78, 249
Ethics (Spinoza), 256
Eugénie (empress), 345
Europe and the Soul of the East (Europa und die Seele des Ostens) (Schubart), 272
evil, 38
evolution, 29
executions, 13–15, 175–76; in Les Bagnes, 219; during bombings, 327; by horse butchers, 175; of hostages, 36, 37, 238, 409n26; of Jews, 267–68; of Maximilian, 172; measuring and weighing in, 29; of officers, 333; in Russia, 153; by SS, 271; by State Police, 356
Exhortation to Martyrdom (Origen), 311
Expanse of Africa, The (Weites Land Afrika) (Mohr), 215
Ezekiel, Book of, 147
Fabre-Luce, Alfred, 231, 251
Falstaff, 208
Faulkner, William, 210, 212
Faust (Goethe), 200, 420n157
Faustine, La (Goncourt, E.), 48
Feast of the Assumption, 236
Federici, Federico, 83
Feldmeister, 400, 403, 422n52
Ferrandi, Gebhardt on Rue Jean, 252
Festival of Lights (Lichtweih), 266
Feuerblume. See Neumann, Marliese
Fieschi, Joseph, 295, 337
Fieseler Storch, 154
Filon, Pierre Marie Augustin, 345
Flaubert, Gustave, 25
Flegeljahre, 207–8
Fleurs du Mal, Les (The Flowers of Evil), 68
floods, 37, 133
flowers, 2, 16, 21–22, 67, 76, 80, 86, 91, 116, 171, 186, 196, 323, 394, 399–400; in cemeteries, 82, 209–10; Charmille and, 93, 111; Doctoresse and, 109, 255, 316; insects in, 184; in On the Marble Cliffs, 129; Monet and, 335; Neuhaus and, 188–89
Flowers of Evil, The (Les Fleurs du Mal), 68
flying dreams, 44
flying fish, 302
Fontane, Theodor, 95
Foreign Legion, x–xi, xxiv
Foucault, Michel, xxvi
Fouquier, Marcel, 295
Four Years in Captivity at Cochons-sur Marne (Quatre Ans de Captivite a Cochons-sur-Marne) (Bloy), 171
France, Anatole, 16
Francs-tireurs, 351, 420n12
Frank, Walter, 187
Frederick the Great, 162
free will, 359
Freikorps, xi
Freisler, Roland, xxi–xxii
French Cook, The (Le Cuisinier Francais) (Guégan), 214
French Guyana (La Guyane Française) (Bouyer), 54
French Revolution, 99, 342
Freud, Sigmund, 242
Freya, 266, 417n105
Freyhold, Rudi von, 148
Friedrich, Alexander, 322
Friedrich Wilhelm I, 308, 338
Fritsch, Werner Freiherr, 44
From Midshipman to Field Marshal (Vom Seekadetten zum Feldmarschall) (Wood), 399, 402
Fuchs (doctor), 101, 138–39
Fumeurs d’Opium (Boissière), 33, 35
Funder, Tronier, 235
future unknown, 85
Fuye, Maurice de La, 342, 343
Gachet, Paul Ferdinand, 213
Gaia, 370
Galliffet, Gaston Alexandre Auguste marquis de, 194, 269, 399
Gallimard, Gaston, xvi, 32, 47, 59, 64
Galvani, Luigi, 328, 420n158
Gambetta, Léon, 217
Garden of Earthly Delights (Poe), 287
Garden of Paradise, 189
Garden of Torments, The (Le Jardin des Supplices) (Mirbeau), 2
“Garden Party, The” (Mansfield), 288
Gardens and Streets (Gärten und Straßen) (Jünger, E.), xv, 38–39, 45, 148, 228; Jünger, F. G., on, 46; review of, 235
gas masks, 228
Gate of the Humble, The (La Porte des Humbles) (Bloy), 105–6
Gautier, Théophile, 124
Gebhardt, Hans, 57, 193
Général de Galliffet, Le (Thomas, L.), 117
General History of Thieves (Histoire Générale des Larrons) (d’Aubricourt), 98
General Outline of an Ecology of Chinese Reptiles (Grundzuge einer Okologie der chinesischen Reptilien) (Mell), 357
Genesis, Book of, 205, 370–73
Gentz, Friedrich von, 89
Geoffrin, Marie-Thérèse, 195
Geographie linguistique (Dauzat), 343
Georg, Friedrich, 259, 263, 297, 322
George, Stefan, 201, 414n36
Georget, Abbé, 321–22
Gerbe, La, xvi
Gerlach, Erwin, 42
German Greeting, 160
German Institute, 35, 276, 406n20
Germanophilia, 238
German salute, 337, 413n40
Gerson, Jean de, 75
Gerstberger, Karl, 53
Gevers, Marie, 258
Geyer, Hermann, 202
Gide, André, 193–94, 201, 221, 301; Huxley and, 255
Giono, Jean, 17
Girandoux, Jean, 181, 217; Bousquet, M., and, 188
Girls, The (Les Jeunes Filles) (Montherlant), 70–71, 72
Goebbels, Joseph, xiii, xxi, xxiii, 386
Goerdler, Carl Friedrich, 307
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 66, 131, 200, 234, 255, 301, 323, 358, 398, 412n17, 420n157; color theory of, 185; Schiller and, 284
Gogol, Herbert, 142, 148, 164
Goldberg, Oskar, 372
Golden Calf, 352
“Golden Shell, The” (Jünger, E.), 306
Goncourt, Edmond de, 48, 55, 281, 334
Goncourt, Jules Alfred de, 55, 281
Göpel, Erhard, 30, 200–201, 203, 213, 274, 287, 292, 297, 314, 346; Heller, G., and, 257
Göring, Hermann, 410n37, 421n19
Gould, Florence, xvi, 60, 173, 181, 201, 212, 217, 226, 231, 233, 268, 271, 275, 328, 330, 338; at birthday, 308; Céline and, 174; Georget and, 321–22; Heller, G., and, 171, 274, 331; Jouhandeau, M., and, 251, 292, 318; Léautaud and, 333–34, 362; Vernes and, 303–4, 318
Goya, Francisco, 56, 212, 409n49
Goys de Mezeyrac, Louis Marie Joseph, 333
Grabbe, Christian Dietrich, 300
Gracq, Julien, xvi
Grand Inquisitor, 282
Grävenitz, von (doctor), 124
Greek Gods (Griechische Götter) (Jünger, F. G.), 81–82, 90
Grewe, Wilhelm G., 194
Grillparzer, Franz, 62, 420n170
Grimm, Friedrich Melchior Baron von, 92
Grimmelshausen, Johann Jacob Christoffel, 300
Grothius, Hugo, 199
Groult (art collector), 334
Gruel, Léon, 191, 214
Grunert, Christian, 148
Grüninger, Horst, 15, 26, 30, 33, 42, 56–57, 74, 211, 253, 264, 272–73, 320; anecdotes of, 55; arrest of, 354; on evil, 38; letters from, 64, 65, 148, 217–18
Grüninger, Maggi, 72, 74
Gubernatis, Angelo de, 119
Gudin, Théodore, 244, 245
Guelph, 229, 309, 416n63
Guérin, Maurice de, 95
Guiche, Armand de Gramont Comte de, 93
Guitry, Lucien, 25
Guitry, Sacha, xv, xvi, 23, 25, 44, 281
Güllich, Hans, 221
Günther, Albrecht Erich, 162, 190, 219; death of, 194
Günther, Gerhard, 359
Günther, Johann Christian, 397, 398
Guyane Française, La (French Guyana) (Bouyer), 54
Hach (professor), 128
Hadenburg, Friedrich Leopold Freiherr von. See Novalis
hallucinogenic drugs, xxv–xxvi, 97–98
Hamann, Johann Georg, 95, 175; Kant and, 255, 268
Hammer of Witches (Malleus Maleficarum) (Sprenger), 108
Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph Freiherr (Baron) von, 337
Hannibal, 185
Hansjakob, Heinrich, 81
Happy Days of Yesteryear (Jours Heureux d’Autrefois) (Fouquier), 295
Harmodios, 39
Hasdrubal, 184
Hattingen, Max, 41, 183
Haug, Johan Christoph Friedrich, 70, 348
Haumont, Jacques Paul Louis, 274
Häussler (first lieutenant), 138, 141, 142, 260
Head Forester, 46, 288, 352; dream of, 332
Head Ranger, xiv
Heart of Darkness (Conrad), 87
Hebbel, Christian Friedrich, 134, 188
Heinse, Johann Jakob Wilhelm, 395–96
Heinsheimer, Friedrich. See Husser, Fernand
Heller, Gerhard, 39, 47, 56, 60, 61–62, 89, 168, 203, 231, 291; Bousquet, M., and, 188; Göpel and, 257; Gould and, 171, 274, 331; Jouhandeau, M., and, 174; Poupet and, 99; Siegler and, 102; Thomas, H., and, 201; Valentiner, K., and, 184
Heller, Marie-Louise, 274, 275
Henri, Florence, 71, 76
Henry IV, 295
Heracles at the Crossroads (Poussin), 32
Heraclitus, 247, 386; Hamann and, 255
Hércule (unidentified), 89, 171, 221
Hérisson d’Irisson, Maurice conte d’, 301
Herodotus, 78, 118; Hamann and, 255
Hesiod, 358, 360
Heydrich, Reinhard, xv, 267
Hielscher, Friedrich, xii, xxi–xxii, 148, 190, 262, 288, 292. See also Bogo
High Wind in Jamaica, A, 69
Hildesheim Chronicle, 310
Himmler, Heinrich, 307
Hindenburg, Paul von, 44, 203, 356, 381
History in a Nutshell (Historia in Nuce) (Jünger, E.), 283
History of Charles XII (Voltaire), 275–76
History of Saint Louis, The (Joinville), 329
History of Shipwrecks (Deperthes), 377–78
History of the Greeks (Jäger), 161
History of the Spanish Conspiracy Against Venice, 275
Hitler, Adolf, xvii, 27, 41, 53, 66, 217, 266–67, 299, 319; appeal for civil defense, 350–51; assassination attempt on, xx, 336; bad signs for, 275; Cainites and, 372; charisma of, 203; as chosen by world spirit, 280; command by, 335; diabolical greatness of, 198; discredit of good ideas by, 252; dreams of, 186, 396; driver of, 273; as example, 353; executions under, 175; eyes of, 228; handwriting of, 211; Hindenburg and, 381; ill health of, 370; intransigence of, 308; lack of sympathy for, 170; Mars and, 257; “Night and Fog Decree” of, 203, 229, 414n39; oath of allegiance to, 324; objectives of, 49; order to blow up bridges by, 341–42; overestimations of, 197; photograph of, 329; planned removal of, 308; prediction of victory by, 330; shift from Diabolus to Santanas by, 60; speeches of, 274, 375; Speidel, H., and, 331–32; Stülpnagel, H., and, 327; symbolism of, 235; theft of law by, 247; on verdicts of military tribunals, 215
Hitler, ein deutsches Verhangnis (Hitler, a German Disaster) (Niekisch), 401
Hofacker, Cäsar von, xx, xxi, 307–8, 315, 336
Hoffman, Albert, xxvi
Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm, 172, 261
Hohes Ufer, 279
Hohly, Richard, 185, 211–12
Hölderlin, Friedrich, 286, 418n121
Höll, Werner, 12–13, 16, 20, 99; letters from, 148
Holle (school principal and teacher), 326
Holofernes, 189
Holstein, Friedrich von, 232
Homer, xi, 39, 95, 141
Horion, Adolf, 228
horoscopes. See astrology
hostages, 52; executions of, 36, 37, 238, 409n26
hôtels de passe (brothels), 11
Houdon, Jean Antoine, 58, 69, 386
hourglass, 297
House of the Dead, The (Dostoevsky), 135
Houssaye, J. G., 76
Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm, 293
Hugo, Victor, 318
Human Condition, The (La Condition Humaine) (Malraux), 23
Humm, Albert, 93, 342
Husser, Fernand, 262–63, 266, 275, 329, 330
Huxley, Aldous, xiii, xvi, 222, 229, 242, 246, 248, 250, 252, 253, 354; nihilism and, 255
Huysmans, Joris-Karl, 27, 182, 368, 384, 389
Hymns to the Night (Novalis), 397
Hyperion or The Hermit in Greece (Hyperion oder Der Eremit in Griechenland) (Hölderlin), 418n121
Ichbezogenheit (cult of self), xxiv
“I. G. Hamann, eine Festrede gehalten am 27. Januar 1916 in der Aula der westfalischen Wilhelms-Universitat zu Munster von Julius Smend,” 255
Illusions of Technology (Illusionen der Technik) (Jünger, F. G.), 90, 150, 175, 368
individuality, 51
individuation, 177
inner emigration, xiv
In Praise of Vowels (Jünger, E.), 415n42
insects, 4, 17, 18, 34, 273, 280, 310–11; diversity of, 344; dream of, 253; in flowers, 184. See also beetles; butterflies
insemination, spirituality of, 179
intelligence, 365–66; of women, 28
intoxication, productivity and, 163
Irving, Washington, 184, 212, 231
Isaiah, Book of, 109, 110, 130, 281
Island of Ceylon and Its Natural Curiosities, The (L’Ile de Ceylan et ses Curiosites Naturelles) (Sachot), 347
jack-of-all-trades, 99–100
Jäger, Oskar, 161
James, Thomas, 378
James I, 231
Janin, René, 221
Japan: dream of, 313; snakes and, 37
Jeannel, Rénée Gabriel, 348
Jehovah, 59
Jeinsen, Gretha von, xii
Jeinsen, Kurt von (brother-in-law), 45
Jeremiah, Book of, 120, 130
Jessen, Peter Jens, 47, 307, 315
Jewish Peril, The (Le Péril Juif), xvi
Jewish War (Josephus), 279, 280–81
Jews, xvii–xviii, 78, 338; anti-Semitism against, xvi, 242, 372, 406n21; arrests of, 76; cleverness of, 204; as eternal, 372; executions of, 267–68; in ghettos, 267–68; Nebel and, 102; in Russia, 152; yellow stars on, 69–70
“Jews and the National Question” (Jünger, E.), xiii
Job, Book of, 83
Jodl, Alfred, 49
Joffre, Joseph Jacques Césaire, 81, 333
John, Gospel of, 288, 290, 294
Joinville, Jean de, 329
Jomini, Antoine Henri baron de, 221
Josephus, Flavius, 279, 280–81
Jouhandeau, Elisabeth, 174, 233
Jouhandeau, Marcel, xv, xvi, 60–61, 171, 173, 174, 192, 226, 233–34, 237–38, 248, 284; at birthday, 308; Braque and, 261; Cicero and, 253; dream of, 285; Gould and, 251, 292, 318; on his marriage, 201–2; Michelangelo and, 304; Saint-Gellais and, 250
Journal (Gide), 301
Journal of an Interpreter in China (Journal d’un Interprete en Chine) (Hérisson), 301
Journal of Scientific Entomology (Zeitschrift fur wissenschaftliche Insektenbiologie), 279
Journal of the Plague Year, A (Defoe), 241
Journals (Byron), 309
Judith, Book of, 189
Jünger, Alexander Carl (son), 205, 310–12, 313, 346, 387; courage of, 355; fairytale by, 396; journal of, 362
Jünger, Christian Jakob Friedrich “Fritz” (grandfather), 132, 237, 279; dream of, 264
Jünger, Ernst. See specific topics and works
Jünger, Ernstel (son), xxii, xxiii, 37–38, 279, 296, 312–13, 350; arrest of, 297–99; death of, 379–81; dream of, 400; letter from, 301, 357, 366; memorial for, 380, 383; new assignment for, 346–47, 351, 357; photography of, 381
Jünger, Ernst Georg (father): death of, 160–61, 288, 378; dreams of, 238, 242–43, 289, 348, 364; illness of, 158; Jünger, F. G., on, 207
Jünger, Friedrich Georg (brother), xii, xiv, 81–82, 85, 103, 150, 175, 193, 194, 197, 208, 224, 293, 311, 352; Abt and, 55; dreams of, 110–11, 147, 368; on father, 207; at father’s funeral, 161; on Gardens and Streets, 46; letters from, 57, 72, 90, 111, 148, 165, 178, 201, 207, 211, 228, 368, 392; mythology and, 199; poems by, 48, 74, 116–17, 125, 131, 162, 220, 228, 385–86; technology and, 163
Jünger, Gretha Lidy Toni Margrete Anni (wife, Perpetua), xii, xviii–xix, 118, 119, 164, 167, 210, 227, 278; birthday of, 392; Christmas cake from, 147; dreams of, 178, 246, 363; on father’s death, 160; on gas masks, 228; gravitational pull of, 37; on her brother’s death, 284; at home with, 63–65; letters from, 18–19, 39, 41, 72, 84, 100, 102, 148, 178, 215, 251, 270, 272, 284, 332; Menzel and, 374; present for, 258; son and, 297–98, 312; on son’s death, xxiii
Jünger, Karolina (mother), 118, 207; letters from, 147
Jünger, Wolfgang (brother), 39
Jürgens, Grethe, 371
justice, style and, 51
Kabbala, 85
Kafka, Franz, 282–83
Kama Sutra, 289
Kang-hsi (emperor), 109
Kanne, Johann Arnold, 40
Kant, Immanuel, 255, 268
Karamsin, Nikolai Michailovitch, 168
Karneval, 241
Karsch, Ferdinand, 348
Kastor. See Baeumler, Alfred
Kathchen von Heilbronn (Kleist, H.), 172
Keiper, Wolfgang, 359
Keitel, Wilhelm, xxi, 228
Keyserling, Hermann Graf, 49
Khayyam, Omar, 307, 323
Kiderlen-Wächter, Alfred von, 232
Kings, Book of, 392
Kipling, Rudyard, 87, 290, 393
Klaebisch, Gustav, 341
Klages, Ludwig, 201, 315
Kleist, Ewald von, 124, 159, 370
Kleist, Heinrich von, 172
Klinger, Friedrich Maximilian von, 172
Klostermann, Vittorio, 81, 293
Kluge, Hans Günter von, xxi
Kniébolo (pseudonym). See Hitler, Adolf
Knochen, Helmut, xxi
Kölnische Zeitung, 93
Königstein, François Claudius (Ravachol), 182
Konrad, Rudolf, 154
Kossmann, Karl-Richard, 62, 67, 108, 113, 220, 336
Kraus (ballistics expert), 215, 330
Krause (lieutenant colonel), 158, 234
Kräwel, Kurt von, 228
Kreitz, Werner, 190
Kretzschmar (corporal), 215, 297
Kronos, 370
Krüger (professor), 327
Kubin, Alfred, xxvi, 34, 41, 54, 128, 185, 213–14, 282–83, 323, 331; letters from, 305
Kügelgen, Gerhard von, 102
Kuhn, Hans, 168
Kulaks, 141, 412n23
Kutscher (first lieutenant), 227
Laban, 372–73
L’Admirable, Ruysbroeck, 94
Lahmann (unidentified), 364
Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste Antoine de Monet de, 256, 358
Lamech, 371
Lamentation of the Sword (Lamentation de l’Epee) (Bloy), 375
Lampe, Ursula, 195, 235, 244, 343
Landru, Henri Désiré, 69
Landskneccht, 78
Landwehr, 404
Lange, Horst, 282–83
language, 295–96
Lapeyre, Gabriel Guillaume, 184
Larcher, Pierre Henri, 199
La Rochelle, Drieu, xvi, 23, 62
Latrelle, Pierre Henri, 82
Laue, Cramer von, 272, 276–77, 280, 370
Laurencin, Marie, 174, 271, 275
Lautréamont (comte de), 76, 77; Surrealists and, 172
Lawrence, T. E., 181
League of Nations, xvii
Léautaud, Paul, xvi, 315, 318, 319, 323; Gould and, 333–34, 362
Leaves and Stones (Jünger, E.), xxiv–xxv
Leinert, Robert, 237
Leleu, Jean, 246, 282
lemures, 35, 59, 62, 65, 72, 87, 338, 381
Lenin, Vladimir, 122, 337
Leo, Hans, 194, 283
Leonardo da Vinci, 288
Lermina, Julius, 2
Letters and Journals (Byron), 307
Letters from Mondello (Briefe aus Mondello) (Georg), 259
Letters from Norway, 101, 411n75
Lettres Françaises, xvi
Léutaud, Paul, xv
Leviticus, Book of, 376
Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph, 111, 172, 175, 238
Lichtweih (Festival of Lights), 266
Life of Guy de Maupassant, The (Vie de Guy de Maupassant) (Morand, P.), 92
Life of Henri Brulard, The (Stendhal), 418n126
Life of Jesus, The (Das Leben Jesu) (Renan, J.), 83
“Lighthouses, The” (“Les Phares”) (Baudelaire), 59
Ligne, Charles Joseph prince de, 201, 274
Limojin de Saint-Didier, Alexandre Toussaint, 76
Linnaeus, 40, 101
Linné, Elisabeth von, 280, 418n116
Li-Ping (princess), 206–7, 215; dream of, 284
Litzmannstadt, 267–68
Lizst, Franz von, 258
Loehning, Paul, 282, 297, 301–2, 314, 336–37, 346, 400; State Police and, 354–55
Löns, Hermann, 147, 276, 364; Weniger and, 241–42
Loose, Gerhard, xxiv
Louis XV, 112
Louis XVI (Fuye), 342, 343
Loves of Carlo Gonzaga, The (Les Amours de Charles de Gonzague) Capoceda), 76
LSD, xxvi
Lucinda (Schlegel), 89
Ludendorff, Erich, 202
Luke, Gospel of, 283
Luther, Martin, 301
Lyautey, Louis Hubert Gonçalve, 221
Macrobiotik (Hufeland), 293
Magical Stories (Contes Magiques) (Soung-Lin), 173, 175
Magic Flute, The, 183
Magic of Serenity, The (Jünger, E.), xxvi
Magius, Girolamo, 112, 197
Maillol, Aristide, 214–15
Maimonides: Critique of Jewish Doctrine (Maimonides. Kritik der judischen Glaubenslehre) (Goldberg), 372
Maiweg, Herr, 151–52
Malachi, Book of, 187
Mallarmé, Stephane, 17, 369
Malraux, André, 23, 60, 221
Man, Hendrik de, 274, 321, 332
Mann, Thomas, xiv, 23
Mansfield, Katherine, 288
Marais, Jean, 47, 66
Marat, Jean-Paul, 29, 372, 421n33
Marckord, Justus, 148
Marcu, Valeriu, 338
Marcus Aurelius, 113
Maria Magdalena (Hebbel), 134
Mariaux, Franz, 93
Marie Antoinette, 182
Marital Chronicles (Chroniques Maritales) (Jouhandeau, M.), 60, 171, 192
Marmontel, Jean-François, 323
marriages of convenience, 187
Mars, 257
Marteau, de (unidentified), 147, 148
Martyrdom of the Church in Japan, The (Le Martyrologue de l’Ėglise du Japon) (Profillet), 70
Marx, Karl, 242
“Masque of the Red Death, The” (Poe), 241
Massenbach (unidentified), 153
materia prima (primal material), 25
Matthew, Gospel of, 51, 180, 258, 260, 263, 290, 417n93, 421n29, 421n31
Maulnier, Thierry, 221
“Maundy Thursday” (“Grundonnerstag”) (Droste-Hülshoff), 398
Maupassant, Henri-René-Albert-Guy de, xxv, 93, 97
Maximilian, 172
Maya, 103
Meaulnes the Great (Le Grand Meaulnes) (Alain-Fournier), 284–85, 286
mechanical prayer, 376
Méchin, Benoist, xvi
Médan, Pierre, 338
Meditations of a Solitary Man (Meditations d’un Solitaire) (Bloy), 335
Meeres und der Liebe Wellen, Des (Grillparzer), 420n170
Mégret, Christian, 172, 182
Meinert, Klaus, 264
Mell, Rudolf, 357
Melville, Herman, 26, 251
Melville: A Novel (Pour saluer Melville) (Giono), 17
Memling, Hans, 101, 394
Memoirs from Beyond the Grave (Memoires d’Outre-Tombe) (Chateaubriand), 318
Memoirs of a Physician (Erlebnisse) (Veressayev), 280
Memorials of Venus (Memoires sur Venus) (Larcher), 199
memories, 73
Menge, Herman, 327
mentally ill, sterilization and extermination of, 59
Menzel, Hanne, 321, 364, 376; Perpetua and, 374
Mercier (doctor), 403
Mercure de France, 318
Mergener (captain), 143
Merk, Ernst, 126
Merline (pseudonym for Louis Ferdinand Céline), 35
Merz (officer), 41, 283
Metternich, Franz Graf, 193
Meyer, Ftiz, 399–400
Michelangelo, 304
Michelet, Jules, 99
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (Shakespeare), 277
Migot, Georges, 328
military tribunals, 215
Millet, Jean-François, 325
Minerva Armed for Battle (Minerve sous les Armes) (Perré), 333
mines, 144, 151–52
Mirabeau (Erdmannsdörffer), 258
Mirabeau, Octave, 2, 23, 25, 60, 281, 291
miracles, parables and, 290–91
Mirror of Eternal Salvation (L’Admirable), 94
mirrors, 315
Moby Dick, 69
Mohr, Fridtjof, 215
Molière, 268, 276
Mommsen, Theodor, 44
Monet, 335
Monfreid, Henry de, 2
Mon Journal (Bloy), 70, 73, 365
Monograph on Tea (Monographie du Thé) (Houssaye), 76
Monotoccio, M., 258
Mons (unidentified), 215
Montherlant, Henry de, xv, xvi, 70–71, 72, 346; Valentiner, K., and, 92–93
Morand, Hélène, 68, 84, 88–89, 93, 191, 193, 195
Morand, Paul, xv, xvi, 32, 68, 84, 92, 93, 191, 193, 245
Morin (father and son booksellers), 112, 196–97, 236, 246, 247, 276, 330
Moses, 358
Mossakowsky. See Syben, Friedrich
Moult, Eugène le, 91
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 182
Mühsam, Erich, xiii
Müller, Erich, 226
Müller, Johan Ludwig, 152
mummies, 88, 91, 258; in museum, 125; of Tutankhamun, 187
Münchhausen, von (first lieutenant), 178, 179–80, 285
Murat, Joachim-Napoléon, 326
Murray, Thomas Boyles, 390
Musa, Emir, 46, 65
mushrooms, 104, 192–93, 348
Mussolini, Benito, 231, 252
My Prisons (Pellico), 291
Myrdun (Jünger, E.), 305, 411n75
mythology, 141, 347–48; cannibalism and, 353–54; Jünger, F. G., and, 199; science and, 352
Mythology of Plants, The (La Mythologie des Plantes) (Gubernatis), 119
Mythus (Rosenberg), 107
Naisen, Monika, 70
names, 255–56
Nami (Assadoulaef), 108, 181
Napoleon, 25, 130, 198, 276–77, 294–95
National Bolsheviks, xii
Natural Daughter, The (Naturliche Tochter) (Goethe), 358
natural laws, 87, 117
Nawe-Stier (unidentified), 143
Nay, Ernst Wilhelm, 196, 197, 235, 245
Nebel, Gerhard, xxiv, 23, 33, 38, 39, 46, 51, 102; Valentiner, K., and, 92–93
Nebuchadnezzar, 130
Neuhaus, Alfred Hugo, 113, 232, 241, 307, 342; flowers and, 188–89
Neumann, Marliese (Feuerblume), 41, 45, 213; death of, 324
New Commentary on Genesis, A (Commentar uber die Genesis) (Delitzsch), 372
New Nationals, xi
New Testament, xvii, 248, 325; translation of, 327. See also specific books
New Year’s: in Russia, 152–53; at war’s end, 375
Niedermayer, Oskar Ritter von, 320, 337
Niekisch, Ernst (Cellaris), xii, 185, 190, 211–12, 215, 226, 401; dreams of, 377
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, xxvi, 3, 90, 276–77, 322, 408n60
“Night and Fog Decree,” 203, 229, 414n39
Night Shift (L’Equipage de la Nuit) (Reyès), 289–90
Nigromontanus, 243, 416n76
nihilism, 35–36, 147; anarchy and, 290; Bloy and, 322; coincidence and, 303; Huxley and, 255
Noël, Marie, 288
Norvalis, 95
Nostitz-Walwitz, Helene von, 49
Nostradamus, 119
nouns, verbs and, 219
Nouvelle Revue Française, 23
Novalis, 397
numbing, 145
Nüssle (junior officer), 211
Oberg, Carl-Albrecht, xxi
Odes Funambulesques (Banville), 347
Odysseus, 141, 286, 347–48
Odyssey, The (Homer), 141
Oeconomy of Human Life, The (Dodsley), 90, 411n71
Oertzen, Louise von, 275
Oetinger, Friedrich Christoph, 179
Offensive Stories (Histoires Désobligéantes) (Bloy), 162
Official Guide to Air Travel (Guide Officiel des Voyages Aeriens), 333
Oldekoppe (architect), 310
Old Testament, xvii, 26, 59, 298, 387. See also specific books
On Bells (De Tintinabulis) (Magius), 112, 197
Oncle Henri (Jouhandeau, M.), 284
One Thousand and One Nights, 34, 45, 46, 85, 210, 238, 275, 280, 311
On Prayer (Origen), 364
On Secrets (De Secretis) (Weckerus), 112
On the Marble Cliffs (Marmorklippen) (Jünger, E.), xiv, 38, 40, 59, 64, 162, 201, 221, 336, 419n145; flowers in, 129; Picasso and, 78; review of, 369; translation of, 51, 54; Überlingen and, 227
On the Puppet Theater (Marionettentheater) (Kleist, H.), 172
On the White Stone (Sur la Pierre Blance) (France), 16
On tue les nôtres. (They are killing our own.), 24
Operation Barbarossa, xviii
Operation Sea Foam, 229
Operation Sea Lion, 26
Operation Valkyrie, xx–xxii
Oppen, Alexander von or Gustav, 125
Oppenheim (banker), 203
Origen, 311, 364
d’Orves, Henri Louis Honoré d’Estienne, 30
Other Side, The (Andere Sette) (Kubin), 54, 323
Othfried, 126–27
Otte, Kurt, 245
Otto, Walter F., 376–77
“Pagan Year, The,” 266
Palffy (countess), 191
Palinurus, 352
parables, miracles and, 290–91
Parerga (Schopenhauer), 111
Parmenides, 120
Parow, Johann Heinrich, 305
Partisan’s Handbook, 320
Partners in Crime (Die Mitschuldigen) (Goethe), 358
Pascal, Blaise, 26, 130, 201, 268, 281
Pastime, Hobby (Passe-Temps) (Léautaud), 315, 319
past perfect tense, 350
Path of Masirah (Jünger, E.), 126–27, 292, 347, 350, 361–62
Patrouix (Monsieur), 16
Paul (saint), 268, 298, 302, 306
Paulhan, Jean, xvi
Peace, The (Jünger, E.), xvii, xix
“Peacocks” (Jünger, F. G.), 48
Pégoud, Adolphe, 69
Pélleas et Mélisande (Debussy), 101–2
Pellegrin, Arthur Auguste, 184
Pellico, Silvio, 291
Pen, The (La Plume), 375
Penicion Aktion, 222
Pensées (Pascal), 281
People’s Court (Volksgerichtshof), xxi–xxii, 356, 421n20
Pepys, Samuel, 300
Père, Dumas, 23
Peri Banu, 46
Péril Juif, Le (The Jewish Peril), xvi
Perpetua. See Jünger, Gretha Lidy Toni Margrete Anni
Perré, J., 333
Persian Wars, 145
Peter (saint), 252
Petronius, 395–96
Philipp of Macedon, 185
Philo of Alexandria, 300
“Philosophizing with a Hammer” (Nietzche), 322
photography, 329; of Jünger, Ernstel, 381
Physicus, Brother, 119, 215, 225, 330, 392
Picasso, Pablo, xvi, xxvi, 78, 80, 197, 259; Braque and, 261
pigeons, 98
Pilgrim’s Progress (Bunyan), 222, 223
Pillet, Maurice, 258
Pitcairn, the Island, the People, and the Pastor (Murray), 380
Planck, Max Karl Ernst Ludwig, 359
Platen, August Graf, 90
Plato, 90, 163, 293
Pleasure of Meteors, The (Plaisir des Meteors) (Gevers), 258
Pliny, 65
Pliny the Younger, 331, 420n163
Podewils, Clemens, 12, 15, 26, 39, 61–62, 201, 319, 320, 335; letter from, 73, 363; on Maillol, 214–15
Podewils, Sophie Dorothee, 33, 40, 61–62, 320, 335, 363
Poe, Edgar Allan, 31, 43, 65, 215, 241, 268, 287, 288
Poincaré, Raymond, 291
Point Counter Point (Huxley), 242
Polignac, Marquise de, 89
Pontius Pilate, 53, 263
Popitz, Johannes, 47, 307, 315
Porta Westfalica, 277
possessions, 152–53, 322–23
Potard. See Silberberg
Pots Cassés (Broken Earthenware) (Begbie), 96–97
Poupet, Georges, 33, 39, 40, 62, 66, 89, 172; Bousquet, M., and, 188; Calvet and, 50; Heller, G., and, 99; Mégrets and, 182; Valentiner, K., and, 105
Pour le Mérite, xi, xxiii, 162
Poursin, André, 219
Poussin, Nicolas, 32
power, 38; demonic, 186
prayer, 353; mechanical, 376
Prayers of an Unbeliever (Gebete eines Ungläubigen) (Marckord), 148
Preface to a Future Book (Préface a une live future) (Lautréamont), 76, 77
Preussen, Albrecht von, xi
Prévaux, Blandine Ollivier de, 188
primal material (materia prima), 25
Primal Words (Urworte Orphisch) (Goethe), 234, 398
Prince Bismarck; the Psychology of the Strong Man (Le Prince de Bismarck; Psychologie de l’Homme Fort) (Benoist), 236
Proberts 11:11, 310
Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Stavropol, 1926 (Acta Societatis Entomologicae Stauropolitanae, 1926), 125
productivity, intoxication and, 163
Profillet, Abbé, 70
projection, 42–43
Proust, Marcel, 39; autograph of, 50; Cocteau on, 192
Psalms, Book of, 73, 94–95, 217, 398
Pylon (Faulkner), 210, 212
Pyrrhus (Crébillon), 105
Queen (Reine) (Lermina), 2
Querfurt, Bruno von, 120
Quincey, Thomas de, 93
Quintilian, 46
Quinton, René, 30
Quitt (Fontane), 95
Raabe, Wilhelm, 132
Rachel, 373
RAD. See Reichsarbeitsdienst
Rademacher, Otfried (Dr. Weber), 43, 185, 190
Rahmelow (lieutenant), 44
railroads, 265
rainbows, 12, 18, 20, 62, 282, 286, 345
raison d’état (reasons of state), 28
Ransonnette, Pierre Nicolas, 162
Rantzau, Abel, 56, 61–62, 66, 89; Valentiner, K., and, 184
Raskolnikov, 152, 412n37
Rathke, Anton, 160
Ravachol. See Königstein, François Claudius
Ravoux, Sophie, xviii–xix. See also Charmille; Doctoresse
Raynal, Guillaume-Thomas-François, 373–74
reasons of state (raison d’état), 28
Réau, Louis, 386
“Recollection of a Billard-Maker” (Tolstoy), 64
Red Cross, 98, 135, 275; in Russia, 141
Reese (major), 320
Régimbart, Maurice Auguste, 219
Rehm (aide-de-camp), 62, 65, 108, 109, 112, 115, 119, 306
Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD), 422n51
Reiners, Jakob, 148
Reitter, Emmerich, 42
Renaissance (Burckhardt), 44
Renan, Joseph Ernest, 83, 300, 325
Renan, Konstanz, 87
Renaud et Armide (Cocteau), 46, 185
Reprisal Weapon (Vergeltungswaffe), 331
Resistance, 211
Revelation, Book of, 127, 249, 321
Reverdy, Pierre, 168, 171
Reyès, Salvador, 289–90
Richardet (Madame), 5, 18–20
Richelieu, Louis François Armand Vignerot du Pléssis, 294
Richet, M., 265–66
Rictus, Jehan, 171
Riley, James, 64–65
Rimbaud, Arthur, xxv, 5, 17, 164, 168, 201, 273, 335
Rivarol, Antoine conte de, 117, 354, 391
Rivière, Jacques, 284
Robespierre, Maximilian de, 190, 367
Roch, Nicholas-Sébastien (Chamfort), 117, 319
Rochefort, Henri, 194
Rochefoucauld, Henri, 316
Rochelle, Pierre Drieu la, xv, xvi, 276, 346
Rodolphe. See Schlichter, Rudolf
Röhm Purge, xiii
Röhrict, Edgar, 44
Romanticism, 89–90, 200, 326
Roma Sotteranea (Rossi), 106
Rommel, Erwin, xv, xx, xxii, 315, 329, 336
Ronneberger, Friedrich August, 296
Röpke, Wilhelm, 356
Roquelaure, Gaston-Jean-Baptiste, Marquis de, 84
Rörecht (chief of staff), 42
Rosen, Friedrich, 232
Rosenberg, Alfred, 107
Rosenkranz, Wilhelm, 374, 392–93, 399
Rossi, Pietro, 106
Rousseau, Henri, 269
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 163–64, 320
Roussel, Napoléon Charles Louis, 81
Routes et Jardins, 66
Rozanov, Vassily Vassilievich, 186, 188, 389
Ruge, Friedrich Oskar, 332
Rundstedt, Gerd von, 308
Ruoff, Richard, 133
Rupp, Ernst, 142, 219
Russia, 115–65; beetles in, 148–49; cemeteries in, 119, 127–28, 134, 137, 148; Christmas in, 141–43, 147; comforts in, 151; corpses in, 146; dream in, 152–53; executions in, 153; Jews in, 152; mines in, 144, 151–52; New Year’s in, 152
Russland und das Germanentum (Russia and the Germanic Concept) (Bauer), 251
Russo-Japanese War, 145, 280, 399
Saager, Adolf, 235
Sabatier, Abbé, 220
Sachot, Octave, 347, 357
Saint-Albin, J. S. C., 56
Saint-Gellais, Mellin de, 250
Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy duc de, 80, 93, 297, 298
Salewski (first lieutenant), 314
Salmanoff, Alexandre, 179–80, 181, 185–86, 188, 202, 211, 222, 283, 285–86, 338
Salomon, Ernst von, xiii, 190
Salvation Army, 97
Samuel, Book of, 55, 57, 59, 389
Sancho Panza (fictional character), 43
Sappho, 39
Sarthe, Levasseur de la, 236
Sauerbruch, Ernst Ferdinand, 119
Saul, 57, 389
Savigny, Corréard, 209
Schaer, Ernst, 190, 192, 213, 333
Schauwecker, Franz, xii
Schede, Wolf, 18
Scheffler, Johann. See Silesius, Angelus
Schenk, Gustav, 347, 350, 351, 353
Schery, Friedrich Franz, 283
Scheuerlen, Ernst, 296–97, 313
Schewen, Werner von, 232, 241
Schiller, Johann, 134, 215, 234, 235, 255, 416n70; Goethe and, 284
Schlegel, Friedrich, 89
Schleier, Rudolf, 23
Schlemihl, Peter, 93, 275
Schlichter, Rudolf, 45–46, 85
Schlumberger, Jean, 8; Doctoresse and, 192, 268
Schmid, Carlo, 30, 58–59, 68, 74, 88, 197, 198
Schmidt (captain), 155–56
Schmitt, Carl, xii, xvi, 26, 37, 40, 118–19, 196, 245, 274, 299, 300; on Bauer, 251; dream and, 162; Heraclitus and, 386; letters from, 147, 251, 281, 288, 383–84; on nihilism, 147; Valentiner, K., and, 71, 178–79, 270–71
Schnath, Georg, 88, 237, 251, 253, 274, 291
Schnitzler, Liselelotte von, 314
Scholz (acquaintance), 65
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 111, 163, 202, 204, 217, 218
Schramm, Wilhelm Ritter von, 51
Schröeter (sergeant), 345
Schubart, Walter, 272, 276–77, 280, 388
Schuchardt, Karl, 125
Schulenburg, Fritz-Dietlof, 228, 262, 308, 315; execution of, 356
Schuler, Alfred, 201
Schultz, Edmund, 115, 292, 354
Schultz, Fritzi, 165
Schutzstaffel (SS), xiii, 271, 307; arrests of, 336
Schwab, Gustav, 347
Schwärmen, 170, 413n6
Schwarmgeister, 170
Schwarz, Manfred, 388, 400
Schwarze Front (Black Front), 226, 415n58
Schwarzenberg, Felix Fürst (prince), 184
science, mythology and, 352
Scrittore (Madame), 21–22
Scylla, 141
secret cemeteries, 173
Secret of Salt, The (Das Geheimnis von Salz) (Oetinger), 179
Secrets of the Red Sea, The (Die Geheimnisse des Roten Meeres) (Monfreid), 2
Seeckt, Hans von, 44
“Seekers of Lice, The” (“Chercheuses de Poux”) (Rimbaud), 273
Seidel, Ina, 27–28
“Selbstbildnis” (“Self-Portrait”) (Jünger, F. G.), 162
self-education, 187
Sentimental Education (Ėducation Sentimentale) (Flaubert), 25
Septembriseurs, 90
sexual love, 163
Seydlitz-Kurzbach, Walther Kurt von, 296, 324, 331
Shakespeare, William, 263, 268, 276, 277, 284
Shaw, Bernard, 238
Shipwreck of the Medusa (Naufrage de la Medus) (Savigny), 209
shipwrecks, 373–74, 377–79, 382, 383; cannibalism with, 384–85
shock therapy, xi
Sicilian Letter (Sizilischer Brief) (Jünger, E.), 164
Sieburg, Friedrich, xvi, 24–25, 42
Siedler, Wolf Jobst, xxiii
Siegler (unidentified), 100, 102
Sievers, Wolfram, xxi–xxii
Silberberg (Jewish pharmacist, Potard), 82, 152, 229
Sild, Meinhart, 195
Sild, Traugott, 195
Silesius, Angelus, 282, 418n117
Simmel, Georg, xxiv
Sirach, Jesus, 198, 204
Sketchbook (Irving), 212, 231
sleep, 277
small coffins, 252, 257
Smend, Julius, 255
Smidovich, Vikentii Vikentevich. See Veressayev
S-mines, 144
Smith, Arthur Henderson, 307, 309
snakes, 31–32, 101, 102; dreams of, 81, 246; edible, 75; Japanese and, 37; in museum, 125; vaccinations for, 54
Social Crisis of Our Time, The (Die Gesellschaftskrisis der Gegenwart) (Röpke), 356
Socrates, 178; dream of, 271
solipsism, 94
Solitude (Esseulement) (Rozanov), 188
Sommer (restaurateur), 83
Songs from the Silver Thistle Refuge (Lieder aus der Silberdistelklause) (Georg), 297
Sophocles, 39
Soung-Lin, P’Ou, 173, 175
Spanish Journey, The (Swinburne), 112
Speidel, Hans Emil, xv, xvi, xx, 15, 22–23, 24, 25, 26, 30, 49, 148, 179, 201, 217–18, 253, 296, 315–16, 329, 335, 342; arrest of, 348; family of, 63; on hostages, 52; Keitel and, 228; Kniébolo and, 331–32; letters from, 148, 304, 377; release from prison, 377; Sternberger and, 60
Speidel, Ina, 354
Speidel, Ruth, 348
Spengler, Oswald, xi, 44, 107, 153, 251
Sperling (captain), 144–45
“Sphinx, The” (Poe), 43
Spinoza, Benedictus (Baruch) de, 256
spirituality: of insemination, 179; technology and, 168
Spleen de Paris, 236
Sprenger, Jakob, 108
SS. See Schutzstaffel
Staatspolizei (State Police), 354–55
Stahlhelm, xi
Stalino, 122
Stameroff, Kyriak, 59
Standarte, Die, xii
Stapel, Wilhelm, 148
State Police (Staatspolizei), 354–55
Stauffenberg, Graf von, xx, 336
Stavrogin, 38, 66, 90
Stendhal, 130, 418n126
Stepanovich, Pyotr, 38, 66
stereoscopic perception, xxv
Sternberger, Dolf, 60
Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour, 290
Stifter, Adelbert, 111, 360
Stoicism, 337
Storm of Steel (In Stahlgewittern) (Jünger), xi
Strauss, David Friedrich, 300
Strubelt (first lieutenant), 137, 148
Strünkmann, Karl-Christoph, 212
Stucken, Eduard, 390
Stülpnagel, Heinrich von, xv, xx–xxi, 58, 133, 214, 252, 299, 307–8, 315, 327, 336
Stülpnagel, Otto von, xv, 52, 409n26
Sturm, Vilma, 83
Stürmer, Der, 198
style, 199, 222, 237; justice and, 51; of tenses, 333
Suhrkamp, Johann Heinrich Peter, 46
Suire, Karl von Le, 155
“Sundial” (Jünger, F. G., 48)
superman (Ubermensch), 69, 238, 333, 416n73
Surrealism, 172
Swammerdam, Jan, 33
Sweating Blood (Sueur de Sang) (Bloy), 351–52
Swift, Jonathan, 354
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 112
Syben, Friedrich (Mossakowsky), 56
Symbolisme Aquatique, 118
symmetry, 306, 328
Symphonie Fantastique (Berlioz), 258
Symposium (Plato), 163, 293
Tallemant des Réaux, Gédéon, 84
Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, 195
Tamerlane, 214
Tannenberg Memorial, 381, 421n39
Tantalus, 352, 354, 420n13
Tassencourt, Marcelle, 221
“Taurus, Der” (Jünger, F. G.), 125
Tavernier, Jean Baptiste baron d’Aubonne, 92
technology, 163, 265; spirituality and, 168
Tempelhof, Friedrich von, 332
Templars, 28
“Temptation of Saint Anthony” (Caillot), 24
tenses: past perfect, 350; style of, 333
teocallis, 372
Tevenar, Gerd von, 266
Thankless Beggar (Bloy), 367
Thebes: Palaces and Necropolises (Thebes, Palais et Necropoles) (Pillet), 258
Theodo, Der (Hansjakob), 81
Theory of Colors, The (Teoria dei Colori) (Jünger, E.), 58
Thérouanne, Pierre de, 196, 235
They are killing our own. (On tue les nôtres.), 24
Thibaut de Marly (saint), 87
Third Reich (Bruck), xi
Thirty Years’ War, xvii, xix, 154, 378
Thomas, A. W., 280
Thomas, Henri, 51, 54, 276; Heller, G., and, 201; Valentiner, K., and, 67, 74–75
Thomas, Louis, 117
Thoughts and Maxims (Rivarol), 391
“Three Worlds” (Schiller), 234
Tippelskirch, Kurt von, 192
Tirpitz, Alfred von, 291
Titanic (ship), 352
Titans, The (Die Titanen) (Jünger, F. G.), 117, 162, 193, 194, 197, 201, 208, 293
Tocqueville, Alexis Clérel conte de, 56, 251, 299, 388
Toepfer, Alfred, 190, 227, 343–44
Toller, Ernst, xiii
Tolstoy, Leo Nikolaevich, 64, 399
“Total Mobilization, The” (Jünger, E.), xxv
Tower of Babel, 122–23, 189, 238; Titanic and, 352
Trakl, Georg, 282–83, 392–93
Traz, Robert de, 83
Treaty of Versailles, xi, xvii
Tresckow, Henning von, xxi
Trial of Sir Edward Coleman, Gentleman, Who Conspired to Kill the King of Great Britain, The (Le Proces du Sr. Edouard Coleman, Gentilhomme, pour avoir conspirer la Mort du Roy de la Grande Bretagne), 176
Trois Vallées, 314
“Trost-Aria” (“Aria of Comfort”) (Günther, J.), 398
Trott, Heinrich von, 227
True Face of the Marquis de Sade, The (Le vrai Visage du Marquis de Sade) (Desbordes), 255
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeyevich, 272
Turner, Joseph Mallord William, 168, 169
Tutankhamun, 187
two-headedness, 125–26
Ubermensch (superman), 69, 238, 333, 416n73
Uckel (captain), 328–29
Underground Rome (Roma Subterranea) (Aringhus), 106
Urpflanze, 235
Uslar-Gleichen, Günther Freiherr von, 227
Utopianism, 90
Valentiner, Klaus (Claus), 48, 49, 51, 56, 61–62, 65, 66, 89, 99, 184, 193, 197, 215, 220, 338; at birthday, 308; des Closais and, 84–85; Doctoresse and, 80, 110; letters from, 64, 148; Montherlant and, 92–93; Nebel and, 92–93; Poupet and, 105; Schmitt and, 71, 178–79, 270–71; Thomas, H., and, 67, 74–75
Valentiner, Max, 338
Valla, Laurentius, 288
Vallès, Jules, 333
van Gogh, Vincent, 203, 213
Varnhagen von Esse, Karl August, 89
Velut, Pierre, 305
Venus, 293
verbs, nouns and, 219
Veressayev, 280
Vergeltungswaffe (Reprisal Weapon), 331
Verlaine, Paul, 226, 287
Vernes, Arthur, 303–5; Doctoresse and, 306–7; Gould and, 318
Verve, 168
Vico, Giovanni Battista, 99
Villiers de L’Isle-Adam, Jean Marie, 110, 163
Visconti, Primi, 93
Vogel (aircraft engineer), 233
Vogel, Emil Wilhelm, 138, 142, 337
Volckmar-Frentzel, Theodor, 194, 308
Volhard, Edward, 353
Völkischer Beobachter, xi, xiii
Volksgerichtshof (People’s Court), xxi, xxi–xxii, 356, 421n20
Volkspartel, 336
Volkssturm (civil defense), xxiii, 350–51, 376, 400, 401; Schmitt in, 384
Volkszeitung, 274
Voltaire, 9, 58, 69, 275–76
Voss, Hans-Alexander von, 50
vowels, consonants and, 215
Vulgate Bible, 236
Wagner, Richard, 3, 61
Wallenstein (Schiller), 235, 416n70
Wallenstein, Albrecht Wenzel Usebius von, 378
Walther, Oswald Alwin, 315
Wanderungen auf Rhodos (Hikes on Rhodes) (Georg), 259
Wandervogel movement, x
Wandsbecker Bote, 132
War (Rousseau, H.), 269
War Journals (Niekisch), xii
war reparations, 286
Waves of Sea and Love, The, 338
wealth, 116
Weber (doctor). See Rademacher, Otfried
Weber, Max, xxvi
Weckerus, Johan Jacob, 112
Wehrwolf, Der (Löns), 147
Weihrauter (major), 143
Weininger, Otto, 163, 302, 366; suicide of, 372
Weinstock, Heinrich, 40, 56, 90, 197; with Gebhardt, 57
Weizsäcker, Viktor Freiherr, 180
Weniger, Erich, 180, 196, 201, 237, 298, 327; Löns and, 241–42
Wepler (unidentified), 324
Werner, Carl, 82
Western Solution (Westlösung), xx
West-östlicher Diwan (Goethe), 131, 412n17
Westwind (Jünger, F. G.), 162
White Roses (van Gogh), 203
Whitman, Walt, 272
Wickenberg, Hanne, 354, 366, 396
Wieland, Christoph Martin, 253
Wiemer, Horst Eduard, 47, 51, 62, 71, 89; Calvet and, 50
Wilde, Oscar, 77
Wilder, Thornton, 181
Willems, Paul, 315
Will-o’-the-Wisp (Das Irrlicht) (Lange), 282–83
Wimbauer, Tobias, xix
Wimpffen, Emanuel Félix de, 77, 410n62
Wisdom of Solomon, The, 102, 190, 194
Wise Women, The (Les Femme Savantes), 58
With the Flow (A Vau l’Eau) (Huysmans), 27
Witzleben, Erwin von, 420n1
Wolf, Erik, 296
Wolfe, Thomas, 192
Wollny (lieutenant), 401
women, xix; beauty of, 372; Cainite, 372; friendship and love of, 199; happiness from, 223; intelligence of, 28; love of, 50; men’s position with respect to two, 172; passports for, 197–98; secretiveness of, 103; seduction of, 55; voices of, 124; as wives of prisoners of war, 191
Women Travelers (Voyageuses) (Bourget), 109
Wood, Evelyn Henry, 399, 401
Worker, The (Jünger, E.), xiii, 175, 195, 305
world spirit, 280
Wrecked on a Reef (Les Naufragés (Raynal), 373–74
Xenophon, 392
yellow stars, on Jews, 69–70
youth, 210, 218, 228
Zaire, Le. See Dezäire, Joseph
Zalmoxis, 118, 318
Zedekiah (biblical figure), 130
“Zelina” (Jünger, F. G.), 48
Ziegler, Benno, 20, 21, 186, 217, 218–19, 276, 288, 305, 386; Appeal for, 344, 346
Ziegler, Leopold, 392
Zillah, 371
Zola, Jean-Baptiste, 70