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 Mircea Eliade, among others. In alternating sections of aphorisms--his "anathemas"--he delivers insights on such topics as solitude, flattery, vanity, friendship, insomnia, music, mortality, God, and the lure of disillusion.
- ISBN10 0704301547
- ISBN13 9780704301542
- Publish Date 1 August 1992 (first published 19 September 1991)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 20 May 2002
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Quartet Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 258
- Language English