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Author | Ernst Jünger |
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Original title | Besuch auf Godenholm |
Translator | Annabel Moynihan |
Language | German |
Publisher | 107 |
Publication date | 1952 |
Publication place | West Germany |
Published in English | 2015 |
Visit to Godenholm (Template:Lang-de) is a 1952 novella by the German writer Ernst Jünger. It tells the story of a group of people who are invited to the island Godenholm in Scandinavia, where they take part in a mind-altering séance with strong surreal imagery.
The book was published in English in 2015, translated by Annabel Moynihan.[1]
Reception
Visit to Godenholm did not receive much attention when it was first published and was for a long time one of Jünger's less read works. In the 1990s it caught the interest of Jünger researchers as a veiled description of one of Jünger's early LSD trips together with Albert Hofmann. In the introduction, Elliot Neaman situates the book in a tradition of linking drug experiences with literary expression, with prominent examples from Romanticism and in the works of Charles Baudelaire.[2]
Legacy
In the 1970 essay collection Annäherungen, a book focused entirely on drugs, Jünger has a chapter titled "Rückblick auf Godenholm", which means "Looking back at Godenholm". The French composer André Almuró made the 1971 opera Visite à Godenholm, which is based on Jünger's novel.[3]
References
- Notes
- ^ "Ernst Jünger, Visit to Godenholm". Edda Publishing. Archived from the original on 2016-01-05. Retrieved 2015-12-27.
- ^ Streim 2011, p. 119
- ^ Streim 2011, p. 133
- Literature
- Streim, Gregor (2011). "Esoterische Kommunikation". In Schöning, Matthias; Stöckmann, Ingo (eds.). Ernst Jünger und die Bundesrepublik: Ästhetik - Politik - Zeitgeschichte (in German). Berlin: De Gruyter. ISBN 9783110237849.