The Glass Bees

“This pitch-black ending [of The Glass Bees] shows that Jünger offers more to the modern reader than perverse echoes of German history. The Glass Bees captures with uncommon precision the psychology of acquiescence and abjection on which the sickening miracles of technology depend. The Venus flytraps of social media are a case in point; so is the heedless embrace of artificial intelligence.…In the end, the technical almost inevitably wins out over the human.” —Alex Ross, New Yorker

“In scenes as harrowing and thought-disturbing as any created by Karel Capek, George Orwell or Aldous Huxley, [Jünger] contributes not only to prophetic and nihilistic literature but also to an understanding of the inner and outer forces that shape many a man’s attitude toward tyranny.” —The New York Times

“Jünger’s language shimmers with icily brilliant cynicism. He masters a style as hard and transparent as the insects of the story’s title.” —The San Francisco Chronicle

“A fantastic, tightly compressed novel…a wonderfully provocative fusion of fiction and philosophy.” —The Atlantic