"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 Yorker In this volume, which reaffirms the uncompromising brilliance of his mind, Cioran strips the hum…

A Short History of Decay (1949) is E. M. Cioran's nihilistic and witty collection of aphoristic essays concerning the nature of civilization in mid 20th-century Europe. Touching upon man's need to worship, the feebleness of God, the downfall of the…

E. M. Cioran confronts the place of today's world in the context of human history-focusing on such major issues of the twentieth century as human progress, fanaticism, and science-in this nihilistic and witty collection of aphoristic essays concerni…

'Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately it is within no one's reach.' In The Trouble With Being Born, E. M. Cioran grapples with the major questions of human existence: birth, death, God, the passing of time, how to relat…

I de aforismer, essäer i miniatyr och prosa­poetiska be­­traktelser som Sammanfattning av sönderfallet rymmer finner vi teman som återkommer i E. M. Ciorans författarskap: självmordet, sömnlösheten, skepticismen och nihilisme­n, gnos­­­tiska kätteri…

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. The…

Hur dystert Ciorans tänkande än kan tyckas vara, leder hans reflektioner över tillvarons grundvillkor inte fram till något försök att bevisa tillvarons meningslöshet, utan handlar snarare om att använda svärtan, som reflektionen över existensens gru…

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 the…

By the mid-1930s, Emil Cioran was already known as a leader of a new generation of politically committed Romanian intellectuals. Researching another, more radical book, Cioran was spending hours in a library poring over the lives of saints. As a mod…

By the mid-1930s, Emil Cioran was already known as a leader of a new generation of politically committed Romanian intellectuals. Researching another, more radical book, Cioran was spending hours in a library poring over the lives of saints. As a mod…

"Only a monster can allow himself the luxury of seeing things as they are," writes E. M. Cioran, the Romanian-born philosopher who has rightly been compared to Samuel Beckett. In History and Utopia, Cioran the monster writes of politics in its broad…

"An antidote to a world gone mad for bedside affirmation"--Washington Post. E. M. Cioran has been called the last worthy disciple of Nietzsche and "a sort of final philosopher of the Western world" who "combines the compassion of poetry and the auda…

Dubbed "Nietzsche without his hammer" by literary critic James Wood, the Romanian philosopher E. M. Cioran is known as much for his profound pessimism and fatalistic approach as for the lyrical, raging prose with which he communicates them. Unlike m…

I tre av fire essays behandler Cioran sin tro på at historien går mot sin slutt. Den andre halvdel av boka består av aforismer.

"Naturen har udelukkende skabt individerne for at understøtte Lidelsen, for at hjælpe den med at sprede sig på deres bekostning." Mange af sætningerne i Bitterhedens syllogismer (1952) kunne være formuleret med det formål at udtrykke mest mulig fort…