On the Marble Cliffs
On the Marble Cliffs Now in a new translation, an imaginative, darkly radiant fable about a pair of brothers, formerly warriors, whose idyll is shattered by an enroaching fascistic force.Set in a…
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On the Marble Cliffs
Now in a new translation, an imaginative, darkly radiant fable about a pair of brothers, formerly warriors, whose idyll is shattered by an enroaching fascistic force.Set in a world of its own, Ernst Jnger's On the Marble Cliffs is both a mesmerizing work of fantasy and an allegory of the advent of fascism. To the north of the cliffs are the grasslands of the Campagna, occupied by herders. The narrator of the book and his brother, Otho, live in an ancient house carved out of the great marble cliffs that overlook the Marina, a great and beautiful lake that is surrounded by a peaceable land of ancient cities and temples and flourishing vineyards.
There the brutal Head Forester rules, abetted by the warrior bands of the Mauretanians.The brothers have seen all too much of war. North of that, the great forest begins. Their youth was consumed in fighting.
Now they have
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