"Léon Bloy's effect on Ernst Jünger presents an extraordinary problem. For Jünger could only approach Bloy, the ‘pariah’ with his wild hatred of Protestants, Prussians, and Germans, by overcoming the most violent disgust. But Léon Bloy's diaries are also prototypical, I could even say constitutive for the 'diary' as a type, because in one fell swoop they leave the romantic-impressionistic soul-searching behind, they place the confusion of 'radiations' and 'reflections' beyond doubt and lend a condition to the aphorism that is otherwise scattered into nothingness."
~ Carl Schmitt
May 26, 2025 1.6K 11
