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."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"
E. M. Cioran (1911-1995) was born and educated in Romania and lived in Paris from 1937 until his death. He is the author of numerous works, including "On the Heights of Despair", also available from the University of Chicago Press.
- ISBN10 070430032X
- ISBN13 9780704300323
- Publish Date 1 August 1987 (first published 1 December 1972)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 15 January 1998
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Quartet Books
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 222
- Language English