Eumeswil

Eumeswil is a novel published in 1977 by the German writer Ernst Jünger. Its action takes place in a post-apocalyptic world that cannot be precisely dated, somewhere in what is today Morocco. It follows the inner and outer life of Martin, also called Manuel Venator, a historian in the city-state of Eumeswil who also works part-time in the night bar of the tyrant who rules the city, the Condor.

The book appeared in Spanish in 1980, in Marciano Villanueva's translation for Seix Barral, and in English in 1993, translated by Joachim Neugroschel.

Its central theme is the figure of the Anarch, an inwardly free individual who lives calmly and dispassionately within society and the world without belonging to them. Jünger conceived the Anarch as a metaphysical ideal figure of the sovereign individual. The idea starts from Max Stirner's notion of 'the Unique' (der Einzige), the egoist thinker who greatly influenced Jünger, though the novel develops it in subtle and critical ways that go beyond Stirner's formulation.