Juenger (Ernst) On the Marble Cliffs.

A novel
London, John Lehmann, 1947.

First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7s6d.

Translated from the German by Stuart Hood. A chilling, dreamlike allegory of a peaceful pastoral society corrupted by the sinister “Head Forester,” a thinly veiled embodiment of Nazi power and nihilism. First published in Germany in 1939, the work astonishingly escaped an immediate ban, likely owing to Jünger’s status as a war hero and the subtlety of its critique (though it faced censorship in 1942). Notable for its early and unsettling prefiguration of the death camps, the narrative depicts a “factory of death” where perfect order masks spiritual annihilation.