"In the fact of being born there is such an absence of necessity that when you think about it a little more than usual you are left... with a foolish grin" -E.M. CioranE.M. Cioran confronts the place of today's world in the context of human history. He fo
This collection of eleven essays originally appeared in France thirty years ago and created a literary whirlwind on the Left Bank. Cioran writes incisively about Western civilizations, the writer, the novel, mystics, apostles, and philosophers."A sort of
In this collection of essays and epigrams, E. M. Cioran gives us portraits and evaluations - which he calls "admirations" - of Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the poet Paul Valery, and Micea Eliade, among others. In alternating sec
Dubbed “Nietzsche without his hammer” by literary critic James Wood, the Romanian philosopher E. M. Cioran is known as much for his profound pessimism and fatalistic approach as for the lyrical, raging prose with which he communicates them. Unlike man
Here in one volume, are the essential writings in the 34 notebook's Cioran left behind at his death, not a journal but a sort of exercise manual, in which he tries out his formulations, perfects the expression of his obsessions and whims. The Notebooks ar
By the mid-1930s, Emil Cioran was already known as a leader of a new generation of politically committed Romanian intellectuals. Researching another, more radical book, Cioran was spending hours in a library poring over the lives of saints. As a modern ha
Cioran, uno de los grandes pensadores de nuestro tiempo, abandonó a sus amigos y lectores el año pasado después de una larga enfermedad. Como homenaje, su editor de toda la vida, Gallimard, publicó poco después este extraordinario volumen de conversa
„Am scris aceste divagatii in 1935–36, la 24 de ani, cu pasiune si orgoliu. Din tot ce am publicat in romaneste si frantuzeste, acest text este poate cel mai pasionat si in acelasi timp imi este cel mai strain.“ (Cioran, 1990)
