The Glass Bees

Fülszöveg

In this classic work of modern Utopian literature, Ernst Jünger ex-
amines how traditional morality is reshaped in an ever more mech-
anized society. The Glass Bees is the story of Captain Richard, a former
cavalry officer in desperate need of employment. Richard applies for
a job at the Zapparoni Works, where ingeniously lifelike automatons
are manufactured, yet he soon finds himself unnerved by these efforts
to improve upon nature. Drawn deeper into Zapparoni's world—a
w orld of mechanical bees which extract nectar so efficiently that they
destroy the botanical life cycle—Richard struggles to maintain his
moral equilibrium as the ground shifts beneath his feet. The Glass
Bees is an incisive look at the ethical ramifications of technological
progress.
A fantastic, tightly compressed novel It can be taken as a
comment on Germany or modern society or both, and, however it
is taken, is a wonderfully provocative and successful fusion of fiction
and philosophy. —... Tovább

Fülszöveg

In this classic work of modern Utopian literature, Ernst Jünger ex-
amines how traditional morality is reshaped in an ever more mech-
anized society. The Glass Bees is the story of Captain Richard, a former
cavalry officer in desperate need of employment. Richard applies for
a job at the Zapparoni Works, where ingeniously lifelike automatons
are manufactured, yet he soon finds himself unnerved by these efforts
to improve upon nature. Drawn deeper into Zapparoni's world—a
w orld of mechanical bees which extract nectar so efficiently that they
destroy the botanical life cycle—Richard struggles to maintain his
moral equilibrium as the ground shifts beneath his feet. The Glass
Bees is an incisive look at the ethical ramifications of technological
progress.
A fantastic, tightly compressed novel It can be taken as a
comment on Germany or modern society or both, and, however it
is taken, is a wonderfully provocative and successful fusion of fiction
and philosophy. — phoebe adams, The Atlantic Monthly
In scenes as harrowing and thought-disturbing as any created by
V
Karel Capek, George Orwell or Aldous Huxley, [Jünger] contributes
not only to prophetic and nihilistic literature but also to an under-
standing of the inner and outer forces that shape many a man's
attitude toward tyranny.
— Siegfried mandel, The New York Times Book Review
A moving novel, brief but extraordinarily spacious.
—The New Yorker
- Jünger's language shimmers with icily brilliant cynicism. He masters
a style as hard and transparent as the insects of the story's title.
— henry Dietrich, San Francisco Chronicle
ernst jünger, a major figure in German literature since 1920,
is the author of numerous volumes of fiction, essays, and journals. Vissza