Sturm (novella)
 1963 book edition | |
| Author | Ernst Jünger |
|---|---|
| Translator | Alexis P. Walker |
Publication date | 11–27 April 1923 |
Published in English | 1 October 2015 |
| Pages | 101 |
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
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Sturm. OCLC 919316040. Retrieved 2016-02-23.
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Further reading
- Coudres, Hans Peter des (1967). "Bemerkung über Sturm". Eckart Jahrbuch (in German). p. 137–152.
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