"A love of Cioran creates an urge to press his writing into someone's hand, and is followed by an equal urge to pull it away as poison."--The New YorkerIn this volume, which reaffirms the uncompromising brilliance of his mind, Cioran strips the human condition down to its most basic components, birth and death, suggesting that disaster lies not in the prospect of death but in the fact of birth, that laughable accident. In the lucid, aphoristic style that characterizes his work, Cioran writes of time and death, God and religion, suicide and suffering, and the temptation to silence. Through sharp observation and patient contemplation, Cioran cuts to the heart of the human experience.
"In the company of Nietzsche and Kierkegaard.--Publishers Weekly
No modern writer twists the knife with Cioran's dexterity. . . . His writing . . . is informed with the bitterness of genuine compassion.--Boston Phoenix
- ISBN10 1611450446
- ISBN13 9781611450446
- Publish Date 11 February 2002 (first published 1 November 1986)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Arcade Publishing
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 212
- Language English