A bookshop (who does not love them) I found a few years ago, a cultural supplement in a English newspaper, owned by ABC's Sunday delivery. The cover is burgundy and the center published the photo of Ernst Jünger. Title: "Interview with the writer to his hundred years." This conversation took place three years before the death of German intellectual. The candor with which the English Pascual Sanchez describes his first impressions of the town where he lived Jünger (Wilfinger) as well as home, studio and even the wife of an intellectual, I traced to those times where the pace of time flowed more slowly . The first thing we learn to read the interview is that Jünger always had the hope of seeing their unified Germany, but the interview starts to take hold when the English reporter asked about the future. Jünger replied:
- "We are in the age of the titans. The gods have retired but not dead, as Nietzsche said. Will return. The world State is already a reality in many things, will also have its policy settings and I hope you have a great peace. The words of Nietzsche: 'God is dead' as its philosophy, is typical of the Titans. See you an example. Nietzsche asserts that "the joy wants eternity '. But this is wrong.'s orgasm, for putting a case, like eternity, but timeless, like that time is suspended, that does not flow. Eternity of pleasure just like the Titans. "
The conversation continues and you can not avoid the feeling of being at the German people in the house of the philosopher and taking small sips hot chocolate and enjoy their company.
- "I did not invent the total mobilization," replied the reporter when he asked about the issue, "but I discovered something completely different. She was there for some time and described. From this formula to me, as others, was made by some perverse use. But it is one of many things you have to support who says what he sees. Meanwhile, we found that both democratic and totalitarian countries have enacted at the time the full mobilization. And still do. "
The caller keeps asking about some other issues:
1.-The mission of art, divinity and its relationship with literature.
-" I think they are two, closer to the divinity and banish the fear of death. "2.-
Literature:
-" I could not exist without it. I live in the books almost more than in reality. If I have something better in hand, I read what you find, although I do not like. There must be reading something more than mere incorporation of content. In ancient China the destruction of a written paper was considered a sacrilege. In any case, apart from the reading I do here in the work room and library, I can not sleep if having read a couple of hours. "
dies How now?
-" In the old peasant when his time comes, got into bed, took the Bible, read a little about it and prayed. Today the die and not so cheap, but expensive. They are paid huge amounts to have a bad death in hospitals. Not that people have more diseases today, but has become more fearful. Die with a book in your hands is a beautiful death. "
The description of the visit and the details continues, look for Sánchez Pascual stops at every detail of the house, the room where the intellectual works and above all body movements suggesting Jünger introspective moments. One could swear you were physically in the nineties Wilfinger in March, just days before the hundredth birthday of the renowned author. I wonder if that was the way to do interviews in Spain. and had he been even better had heard a little voice Jünger. I wonder if it detracts from the immediacy of the internet these chance encounters in the bookstores. I wonder if it would be good go rescuing these treasures, with its pros and cons and occasionally share with the readers of the network.
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