Chartbook 472 Neo-Burgundian technocracy: Ernst Jünger’s reckoning with nihilism.
As I was contemplating the lily, a thin blue ray of light flashed on the vineyard road below and groped its way over the slopes.
In his 1939 work, On The Marble Cliffs, Ernst Jünger grappled with the nihilism he had espoused in his earlier writings during the tumultuous years leading up to World War II. As he contemplated a lily, a single blue ray of light caught his attention on the vineyard road below, setting the stage for the turning point of his classic novel.
An impressive automobile, bearing the colors of New Burgundy's nobility, pulled up to the main gate. Out stepped Braquemart, a man Jünger recognized, and introduced as the young Prince of Sunmyra, a lord of New Burgundian descent. This encounter marked a pivotal moment in Jünger's life, as he sought to distance himself from the Third Reich and its demands for a nihilistic embrace of modern power.
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