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[edit]
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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- ^ 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 – via WorldCat.
Further reading[edit]
- Coudres, Hans Peter des (1967). "Bemerkung über Sturm". Eckart Jahrbuch (in German). pp. 137–152.
 | This article about a World War I novel first published in the 1920s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. See guidelines for writing about novels. Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page. |