Left-wing generation, right-wing generation. Ivan Meshekov and Ernst Jünger (preliminary notes) Cover Image

Ляво поколение, дясно поколение. Иван Мешеков и Ернст Юнгер (Предварителни бележки)
Left-wing generation, right-wing generation. Ivan Meshekov and Ernst Jünger (preliminary notes)

Author(s): Vladimir Sabourin
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Philosophy, Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Philosophical Traditions, Philology
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Keywords: Ivan Meshekov; Ernst Jünger; left generation; right generation; World War I

Summary/Abstract: This article is an introduction to the comparison between the constituting of the “left-wing generation” of the Bulgarian literary critic Ivan Meshekov (1891–1970) and the “right-wing generation” of the German writer Ernst Jünger (1895–1998) in the frontline experience of World War I. Both authors are emblematic figures of the leftwing and the right-wing intellectual spheres respectively, being, at the same time, black sheep in their own political camp. In the well-grounded existential and conceptual temerity of decisions which led them to a categorical generational binding of the aesthetical with the political, Ivan Meshekov and Ernst Jünger are shown to be brothers in arms in a decesionistic situation of the “lost generation” which seeks and finds itself (or finds death) on the battlefields of World War I.

  • Issue Year: 28/2019
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 193-199
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Bulgarian