Name: the temptation to exist
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Author: E. M. Cioran
ISBN: 9781611457384

Type

Physical Book

Author

E. M. Cioran

Translated by

Richard Howard

Publisher

Arcade Publishing

Year

2013

Language

English

Pages

222

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.8x14x2 cm

Weight

0.25 kg.

ISBN

1611457386

ISBN13

9781611457384

Synopsis "the temptation to exist"

"A sort of final philosopher of the Western world. His statements have the compression of poetry and the audacity of cosmic clowning"--The Washington Post This collection of eleven essays, when originally published in France, created a literary whirlwind on the Left Bank. Cioran writes incisively about Western civilizations, the writer, the novel, mystics, apostles, and philosophers. The Temptation to Exist first introduced this brilliant European thinker twenty years ago to American readers, in a superb translation by Richard Howard. This literary mystique around Cioran continues to grow, and The Temptation to Exist has become an underground classic. In this work Cioran writes about Western civilizations, the writer, the novel, about mystics, apostles, philosophers. For those to whom the very word philosophy brings visions of arduous reading, be assured: Cioran is crystal-clear, his style quotable and aphoristic.

E. M. Cioran

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Emil Cioran, sometimes called in a Frenchified manner Émile Cioran, was a pessimistic writer and philosopher of Romanian origin. Most of his works were published in French, as Cioran lived most of his life in Paris, France from 1941 until his death.

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