In the sleepy village of Wilflingen, in southern Germany, stands the house of Ernst Jünger, an eccentric and controversial best-selling German novelist. A pioneer of sci-fi and magical realism, Jünger was a rebel, a philosopher, a decorated WWI veteran, an entomologist, a psychonaut, and a centenarian. After fighting in the First World War, Jünger studied biology and wrote his most famous work In Stahlgewittern (Storm of Steel), which chronicled his personal experience of the war and went on to become an international bestseller. The book was controversial in its writing style—it…
