| Visit to Godenholm | |
| Author: | Ernst Jünger |
| Title Orig: | Besuch auf Godenholm |
| Translator: | Annabel Moynihan |
| Country: | West Germany |
| Language: | German |
| Publisher: | 107 |
| Pub Date: | 1952 |
| English Pub Date: | 2015 |
Visit to Godenholm is a 1952 novella by the German writer Ernst Jünger. It tells the story of a group of people who are invited to the island Godenholm in Scandinavia, where they take part in a mind-altering séance with strong surreal imagery.
The book was published in English in 2015, translated by Annabel Moynihan.[1]
Visit to Godenholm did not receive much attention when it was first published and was for a long time one of Jünger's less read works. In the 1990s it caught the interest of Jünger researchers as a veiled description of one of Jünger's early LSD trips together with Albert Hofmann. In the introduction, Elliot Neaman situates the book in a tradition of linking drug experiences with literary expression, with prominent examples from Romanticism and in the works of Charles Baudelaire.
In the 1970 essay collection Annäherungen, a book focused entirely on drugs, Jünger has a chapter titled "Rückblick auf Godenholm", which means "Looking back at Godenholm". The French composer André Almuró made the 1971 opera Visite à Godenholm, which is based on Jünger's novel.