ENGLISH

The Temptation to Exist

By Emil M. Cioran

Book information

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
1998
ISBN
0226106756, 9780226106755
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12144198 bytes)
Pages
224\232
Time added
2018-09-05 00:46:08

Description

Translated by Richard Howard; introduction by Susan Sontag 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 final philosopher of the Western world. His statements have the compression of poetry and the audacity of cosmic clowning."—Washington Post "An intellectual bombshell that blasts away at all kinds of cant, sham and conventionality. . . . [Cioran's] language is so erotic, his handling of words so seductive, that the act of reading becomes an encounter in the erogenous zone."—Jonah Raskin,L.A. Weekly

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