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

In Germany, as in Iran, all literary works in which war is addressed aretraditionally counted as "war literature"; however, it is very doubtful whetherthis can provide a picture of the attitudes of the authors of literary war booksto the phenomenon of "war". The fact that, in addition to the term "warliterature", terms such as "anti-war literature" (in Germany) and "literature ofholy defence" (in Iran) have also become established shows that the essenceof literary war books can only be done justice if they are evaluated andsubsumed against the background of their authors' attitudes towards war.The establishment of the term "anti-war literature" alongside the term "warliterature" in Germany is due to different attitudes of the authors of literarywar works to war, while in Iran the term "war literature" is used sporadicallyand due to (almost) uniform attitudes of war writers to war, another widelyused term, namely "the literature of holy defense", is preferred. Against thebackdrop of Ernst Jünger’s and Hamidreza Taleghani’s attitudes towardswar—Jünger as a representative of German war literature and Taleghani ofthe literature of the Holy Defense in Iran—this article aims to crystallize andjustify the characteristics of war literature and the literature of the HolyDefense through a comparative study, highlighting that their authors'differing perspectives on war necessitate a distinct categorization of theirworks.

کلیدواژه ها:

Krieg ، Nationalismus ، Kriegsliteratur ، Literatur der heiligen Ver teidigung ، Antikriegsliteratur ، Ästhetisierung des Kriegs ، Verherrlichung des Verteidigungskriegs