Spektrum Iran

Ernst Jünger as an incarnation of war literature versus Hamidreza Taleghani as an incarnation of the literature of sacred defense

Document Type : Original Research Paper

Authors

Mohammadreza Dousti Zadeh 1
Mohammad Hossein Haddadi 2

1 Department of German Language and Literature Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Iran

2 "German Language and Literature", Faculty of Foreign Languages ​​and Foreign Literatures - University of Tehran, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22034/spektrum.2024.203173
Abstract
In Germany, as in Iran, all literary works in which war is addressed are traditionally counted as "war literature"; however, it is very doubtful whether this can provide a picture of the attitudes of the authors of literary war books to the phenomenon of "war". The fact that, in addition to the term "war literature", terms such as "anti-war literature" (in Germany) and "literature of holy defence" (in Iran) have also become established shows that the essence of literary war books can only be done justice if they are evaluated and subsumed against the background of their authors' attitudes towards war. The establishment of the term "anti-war literature" alongside the term "war literature" in Germany is due to different attitudes of the authors of literary war works to war, while in Iran the term "war literature" is used sporadically and due to (almost) uniform attitudes of war writers to war, another widely used term, namely "the literature of holy defense", is preferred. Against the backdrop of Ernst Jünger’s and Hamidreza Taleghani’s attitudes towards war—Jünger as a representative of German war literature and Taleghani of the literature of the Holy Defense in Iran—this article aims to crystallize and justify the characteristics of war literature and the literature of the Holy Defense through a comparative study, highlighting that their authors' differing perspectives on war necessitate a distinct categorization of their
works.

Keywords

war
nationalism
war literature
sacred defense literature
anti-war literature
aestheticization of war
glorification of defensive war
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