Gardens and Roads

Diary entries from 1939–1940, collected by their author—the German writer and philosopher Ernst Jünger (1895–1998)—are published in the book Gardens and Roads, opening up a sextet of his wartime diaries known collectively as “Radiations” (“Strahlungen”). The French translation of Gardens and Roads, released in 1942, in the same year as the German edition, largely determined Jünger’s European fame as one of the outstanding stylists of the 20th century.