Gardens and Roads

«Gardens and Roads» — notes of the German thinker Ernst Jünger from 1939–1940, opening the sextet of his diaries from the time of World War II. Alternating descriptions of private life, historical events, and reflective passages, the author demonstrates the possibility of poetic and philosophical existence in the very center of a great catastrophe. This is the only book by Jünger published during World War II, which largely defined the European fame of the writer as one of the outstanding stylists of the 20th century.