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The Temptation to Exist

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Availability:In StockContributor:E. M. Cioran, Richard Howard (Translator)Publish date:2013-02-01Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:Arcade PublishingISBN-13:9781611457384ISBN-10:1611457386UPC:9781611457384Book Category:Philosophy, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Religious, European, EssaysBook Topic:FrenchSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCC8Q619JY
"A sort of final philosopher of the Western world. His statements have the compression of poetry and the audacity of cosmic clowning"--The Washington Post

This collection of eleven essays, when originally published in France, created a literary whirlwind on the Left Bank. Cioran writes incisively about Western civilizations, the writer, the novel, mystics, apostles, and philosophers.

The Temptation to Exist first introduced this brilliant European thinker twenty years ago to American readers, in a superb translation by Richard Howard. This literary mystique around Cioran continues to grow, and The Temptation to Exist has become an underground classic.

In this work Cioran writes about Western civilizations, the writer, the novel, about mystics, apostles, philosophers. For those to whom the very word philosophy brings visions of arduous reading, be assured: Cioran is crystal-clear, his style quotable and aphoristic.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Arcade PublishingISBN-13:9781611457384ISBN-10:1611457386UPC:9781611457384Book Category:Philosophy, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Religious, European, EssaysBook Topic:FrenchSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCC8Q619JY
Publisher: Arcade Publishing

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