This work shows E.M. Cioran's first grappling with themes he would return to in his mature works: despair and decay, absurdity and alienation, futility and the irrationality of existence. It also presents Cioran as a connoisseur of apocalypse, a theoretician of despair, for whom writing and philosophy both share the "lyrical virtues" that alone lead to a metaphysical revelation.
- ISBN10 0226106713
- ISBN13 9780226106717
- Publish Date 10 September 1996 (first published 15 June 1992)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Chicago Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 150
- Language English