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Was Junger autistic?

>> No.23359210

>>23359206
>German
What a stupid question anon

>> No.23359220

>>23359206
Anyone collecting buggs is deffinitely autistic, so yeah.

>> No.23359258

>>23359206
Either the polar opposite or so autistic, he worked out a conscious variation and combination of sensory and emotional modes - an overcoming of autism, so to speak. Das Abenteuerliche Herz describes this, while it is seen applied in Auf Den Marmorklippen.

>> No.23359423

>>23359206
Which version of this book do I buy?

>> No.23360677

>>23359423
Penguin

>> No.23360711

Don't buy this edition
It's terrible

>> No.23360810

>>23359206
>Original 1929 translation
I doubt this

>> No.23360999

>>23359258
>incapable of empathizing with anyone he meets in Storm of Steel
>obsessed with weird symbolism and motifs and shoehorns them into his stories
>hated Céline because he was loud and talked too much
He was 100% autistic

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23361232

>>23359206
Even his writing style is autistic. Very linear explanations without much (any?)emotional commentary.

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23361713

>>23360999
checked, based, and literally me

>> No.23361769

>>23360999
>Fails to mention the chapter where he meets his brother on the field of battle and cries when he sees him

>> No.23361903

>>23361769
And fails to mention where he, in the middle of a barbarian battle rage, runs into an Englishman whom he spares.