Sturm (novella)

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Sturm
SturmJunger.jpg
1963 book edition
AuthorErnst Jünger
TranslatorAlexis P. Walker
Publication date
11–27 April 1923
Published in English
1 October 2015
Pages101

Sturm is a 1923 World War I novella by the German writer Ernst Jünger. It has a frame story set in the days before the Somme Offensive on the Western Front, where a group of German officers meet to discuss the war and listen to the literary sketches read by one of their members, Lieutenant Sturm.

Publication[]

Sturm was serialised in Hannoverscher Kurier from 11 to 27 April 1923.[1] The novella was forgotten even by Jünger until it was rediscovered in 1960.[2] It was published in book form in 1963. An English translation by Alexis P. Walker was published by Telos Press Publishing in 2015.[3]

Translations[]

  • Sturm, Dutch translation by Tinke Davids, De Arbeiderspers, Amsterdam 1984
  • Lieutenant Sturm, French translation by Philippe Giraudon, Éditions Viviane Hamy, Paris 1991
  • Il tenente Sturm, Italian translation by Alessandra Iadicicco, Guanda, Milano 2001
  • Sturm, Swedish translation by Urban Lindström, Bokförlaget Augusti, Lund 2006
  • Лейтенант Штурм, Russian translation by Vladimir Mikushevich, Vladimir Dal, St. Petersburg 2010
  • El teniente Sturm, Spanish translation by Carmen Gauger, Tusquets Editores, Barcelona 2014
  • Sturm, English translation by Alexis P. Walker, Telos Press Publishing, New York 2015
  • Sturm, Ukrainian translation by Gleb Parfenov, Dipa, Kiev 2019

References[]

  1. ^ Nevin, Thomas R. (1996). Ernst Jünger and Germany: Into the Abyss, 1914-1945. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. p. 79. ISBN 0-8223-1879-2.
  2. ^ Kazecki, Jakub (2012). Laughter in the Trenches: Humour and Front Experience in German First World War Narratives. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing]. p. 40. ISBN 978-1-4438-3899-3.
  3. ^ Sturm. WorldCat. OCLC 919316040. Retrieved 2016-02-23.

Further reading[]

  • Coudres, Hans Peter des (1967). "Bemerkung über Sturm". Eckart Jahrbuch (in German). p. 137–152.
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