Romanian philosopher, aphorist and essayist (1911?1995)
Emil Cioran
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Cioran in Romania,
c.
1947
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Born
| Emil Mihai Cioran
(
1911-04-08
)
8 April 1911
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Died
| 20 June 1995
(1995-06-20)
(aged 84)
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Nationality
| Romanian;
stateless
after 1948, when Romania became a communist country
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Alma mater
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Partner
| Simone Boue
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Awards
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School
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Main interests
| aesthetics
,
antinatalism
,
ethics
,
hagiography
,
literary criticism
,
music
,
nihilism
,
poetry
,
religion
,
suicide
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Emil Mihai Cioran
(
Romanian:
[e?mil
t?o?ran]
ⓘ
,
French:
[emil
sj????]
; 8 April 1911 ? 20 June 1995) was a
Romanian
philosopher,
aphorist
and essayist, who published works in both Romanian and French. His work has been noted for its pervasive
philosophical pessimism
, style, and aphorisms. His works frequently engaged with issues of suffering, decay, and
nihilism
. In 1937, Cioran moved to the
Latin Quarter of Paris
, which became his permanent residence, wherein he lived in seclusion with his partner, Simone Boue, until his death in 1995.
Early life
[
edit
]
Cioran was born in Resinar,
Szeben County
,
Kingdom of Hungary
(today
R??inari
,
Sibiu County
, Romania).
[1]
His father, Emilian Cioran, was an
Orthodox
priest, and his mother, Elvira, was the head of the
Christian Women's League
.
[2]
At 10, Cioran moved to
Sibiu
to attend school, and at 17, he was enrolled in the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy at the
University of Bucharest
, where he met
Eugene Ionesco
and
Mircea Eliade
, who became his friends.
[1]
Future Romanian philosopher
Constantin Noica
and future Romanian thinker
Petre ?u?ea
became his closest academic colleagues; all three studied under
Tudor Vianu
and
Nae Ionescu
. Cioran, Eliade, and ?u?ea became supporters of Ionescu's ideas, known as
Tr?irism
.
[
citation needed
]
Cioran had a good command of
German
, learning the language at an early age, and proceeded to read philosophy that was available in German, but not in Romanian. Notes from Cioran's adolescence indicated a study of
Friedrich Nietzsche
,
Honore de Balzac
,
Arthur Schopenhauer
and
Fyodor Dostoevsky
, among others.
[3]
He became an
agnostic
, taking as an axiom "the inconvenience of existence". While at the university, he was influenced by
Georg Simmel
,
Ludwig Klages
and
Martin Heidegger
, but also by the Russian philosopher
Lev Shestov
, whose contribution to Cioran's central system of thought was the belief that life is
arbitrary
. Cioran's graduation thesis was on
Henri Bergson
, whom he later rejected, claiming Bergson did not comprehend the tragedy of life.
[
citation needed
]
From the age of 20, Cioran began to suffer from
insomnia
, a condition which he suffered from for the rest of his life, and permeated his writings.
[4]
Cioran's decision to write about his experiences in his first book,
On the Heights of Despair
, came from an episode of insomnia.
[5]
Career
[
edit
]
Berlin and Romania
[
edit
]
In 1933, he received a scholarship to the
University of Berlin
, where he studied
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
,
Hegel
,
Edmund Husserl
,
Immanuel Kant
,
Georg Simmel
, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche.
[3]
Here, he came into contact with Klages and
Nicolai Hartmann
. While in
Berlin
, he became interested in the policies of the
Nazi regime
, contributed a column to
Vremea
dealing with the topic (in which Cioran confessed that "there is no present-day politician that I see as more sympathetic and admirable than
Hitler
",
[6]
while expressing his approval for the
Night of the Long Knives
?"what has humanity lost if the lives of a few imbeciles were taken"),
[7]
and, in a letter written to
Petru Comarnescu
, described himself as "a
Hitlerist
".
[8]
He held similar views about
Italian fascism
, welcoming victories in the
Second Italo-Abyssinian War
, arguing that: "Fascism is a shock, without which
Italy
is a compromise comparable to today's Romania".
[9]
Cioran's first book,
Pe culmile disper?rii
(literally translated: "On the Heights of Despair"), was published in Romania in 1934. It was awarded the
Commission's Prize
and the
Young Writers Prize
for one of the best books written by an unpublished young writer. Regardless, Cioran later spoke negatively of it, saying "it is a very poorly written book, without any style."
[10]
Successively,
The Book of Delusions
(1935),
The Transfiguration of Romania
(1936) and
Tears and Saints
(1937) were also published in Romania.
Tears and Saints
was "incredibly poorly received", and after it was published, Cioran's mother wrote him asking him to retract the book because it was causing her public embarrassment.
[11]
Although Cioran was never a member of the group, it was during this time in Romania that he began taking an interest in the ideas put forth by the
Iron Guard
?a
far right
organization whose
nationalist
ideology he supported until the early years of
World War II
, despite allegedly disapproving of their violent methods. Cioran would later denounce fascism, describing it in 1970 as "the worst folly of my youth. If I am cured of one sickness, it is surely that one."
[12]
Cioran revised
The Transfiguration of Romania
heavily in its second edition released in the 1990s, eliminating numerous passages he considered
extremist
or "pretentious and stupid". In its original form, the book expressed sympathy for
totalitarianism
,
[13]
a view which was also present in various articles Cioran wrote at the time,
[14]
and which aimed to establish "
urbanization
and
industrialization
" as "the two obsessions of a rising people".
[15]
His early call for
modernization
was, however, hard to reconcile with the traditionalism of the Iron Guard.
[16]
In 1934, he wrote, "I find that in Romania the sole fertile, creative, and invigorating nationalism can only be one which does not just dismiss tradition, but also denies and defeats it".
[17]
Disapproval of what he viewed as specifically Romanian traits had been present in his works ("In any maxim, in any proverb, in any reflection, our people expresses the same shyness in front of life, the same hesitation and resignation... [...] Everyday Romanian [truisms] are dumbfounding."),
[18]
which led to criticism from the far-right
Gandirea
(its editor,
Nichifor Crainic
, had called
The Transfiguration of Romania
"a bloody, merciless, massacre of today's Romania, without even [the fear] of
matricide
and
sacrilege
"),
[19]
as well as from various Iron Guard papers.
[20]
France
[
edit
]
After returning from Berlin in 1936, Cioran taught philosophy at the
Andrei ?aguna
High School in
Bra?ov
for a year. His classes were marked by confusion and he quit in a year.
In 1937, he first applied for a fellowship at the Spanish Embassy in Bucharest but then the Spanish Civil War started. Then he left for
Paris
with a scholarship from the
French Institute
branch in
Bucharest
, which was then prolonged until 1944. He was supposedly working towards a doctoral thesis in the
Sorbonne University
, but he had no intention to actually work towards it, as the identity of being a student gave him access to cheap meals at the university cafeteria. This he continued until 1951 when a law passed that forbade enrollment of students older than 27.
[21]
After a short stay in his home country (November 1940 ? February 1941), Cioran never returned again.
[22]
This last period in Romania was the one in which he exhibited a closer relationship with the Iron Guard, which by then had taken power (
see
National Legionary State
). On 28 November, for the state-owned
Romanian Radio
, Cioran recorded a speech centered on the portrait of
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
, former leader of the movement, praising him and the Guard for, among other things, "having given Romanians a purpose".
[23]
He later renounced not only his support for the Iron Guard, but also their nationalist ideas, and frequently expressed regret and repentance for his emotional implication in it. For example, in a 1972 interview, he condemned it as "a complex of movements; more than this, a demented sect and a party", saying, "I found out then [...] what it means to be carried by the wave without the faintest trace of conviction. [...] I am now immune to it".
[24]
Cioran started writing
The Passionate Handbook
in 1940 and finished it by 1945. It was the last book he wrote in
Romanian
, though not the last to deal with
pessimism
and
misanthropy
through lyrical
aphorisms
. Cioran published books only in French thereafter. It was at this point that Cioran's apparent contempt for the Romanian people emerged. He told a friend that he "wanted to write a
Philosophy of Failure
, with the subtitle
For the exclusive use of the Romanian People
".
[25]
Furthermore, he described his move to Paris as "by far the most intelligent thing" he had ever done, and in
The Trouble with Being Born
he says, "In continual rebellion against my ancestry, I have spent my whole life wanting to be something else: Spanish, Russian, cannibal?anything, except what I was."
[26]
In 1942, Cioran met Simone Boue, another
insomniac
, whom he lived with for the rest of his life. Cioran kept their relationship entirely private, and never spoke of his relationship with Boue in his writings or interviews.
[27]
In 1949, his first French book,
A Short History of Decay
, was published by
Gallimard
and was awarded the
Prix Rivarol
in 1950 for the best book written by a non-French author.
[28]
Throughout his career, Cioran refused most literary prizes awarded to him.
[29]
Later life and death
[
edit
]
The
Latin Quarter
of Paris became Cioran's permanent residence. He lived most of his life in seclusion, avoiding the public, but still maintained contact with numerous friends, including
Mircea Eliade
,
Eugene Ionesco
,
Paul Celan
,
Samuel Beckett
,
Henri Michaux
and
Fernando Savater
.
[
citation needed
]
In a 1986 interview, Cioran said he no longer smoked or drank coffee or alcohol, citing health reasons.
[30]
In 1995, Cioran died of
Alzheimer's disease
[31]
and was buried at the
Montparnasse Cemetery
.
[1]
Major themes and style
[
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]
Professing a lack of interest in conventional philosophy in his early youth, Cioran dismissed abstract speculation in favor of personal reflection and passionate lyricism. "I invented nothing. I've been the one and only secretary of my own sensations", he later said.
[32]
[33]
Aphorisms
make up a large portion of Cioran's bibliography, and some of his books, such as
The Trouble with Being Born
, are composed entirely of aphorisms. Speaking about this decision, Cioran said:
I only write this kind of stuff, because explaining bores me terribly. That's why I say when I've written aphorisms it's that I've sunk back into fatigue, why bother. And so, the aphorism is scorned by "serious" people, the professors look down upon it. When they read a book of aphorisms, they say, "Oh, look what this fellow said ten pages back, now he's saying the contrary. He's not serious." Me, I can put two aphorisms that are contradictory right next to each other. Aphorisms are also momentary truths. They're not decrees. And I could tell you in nearly every case why I wrote this or that phrase, and when. It's always set in motion by an encounter, an incident, a fit of temper, but they all have a cause. It's not at all gratuitous.
[34]
Philosophical pessimism
characterizes all of his works, which many critics trace back to events of his childhood (in 1935 his mother is reputed to have told him that if she had known he was going to be so unhappy she would have
aborted
him). However, Cioran's pessimism (in fact, his
skepticism
, even
nihilism
) remains both inexhaustible and, in its own particular manner, joyful; it is not the sort of pessimism which can be traced back to simple origins, single origins themselves being questionable. When Cioran's mother spoke to him of abortion, he confessed that it did not disturb him, but made an extraordinary impression which led to an insight about the nature of existence ("I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?" is what he later said in reference to the incident).
[35]
His works often depict an atmosphere of torment, a state that Cioran himself experienced, and came to be dominated by lyricism and, often, the expression of intense and even violent feeling. The books he wrote in Romanian especially display this latter characteristic. Preoccupied with the problems of death and suffering, he was attracted to the idea of
suicide
, believing it to be an idea that could help one go on living, an idea which he fully explored in
On the Heights of Despair
. He revisits suicide in depth in
The New Gods
, which contains a section of aphorisms devoted to the subject. The theme of human alienation, the most prominent
existentialist
theme, presented by
Jean-Paul Sartre
and
Albert Camus
, is thus formulated, in 1932, by young Cioran: "Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?" in
On the Heights of Despair
.
[36]
Cioran's works encompass many other themes as well:
original sin
, the tragic sense of history, the end of civilization, the refusal of consolation through faith, the obsession with the absolute, life as an expression of man's
metaphysical
exile, etc. He was a thinker passionate about history; widely reading the writers that were associated with the "
Decadent movement
". One of these writers was
Oswald Spengler
who influenced Cioran's political philosophy in that he offered
Gnostic
reflections on the destiny of man and civilization. According to Cioran, as long as man has kept in touch with his origins and hasn't cut himself off from himself, he has resisted decadence. Today, he is on his way to his own destruction through self-objectification, impeccable production and reproduction, excess of self-analysis and transparency, and artificial triumph.
[
citation needed
]
Regarding
God
, Cioran has noted that "without
Bach
, God would be a complete second-rate figure" and that "Bach's music is the only argument proving the creation of the Universe cannot be regarded as a complete failure".
[37]
Cioran went on to say "Bach,
Shakespeare
,
Beethoven
,
Dostoevsky
and
Nietzsche
are the only arguments against
monotheism
."
[38]
William H. Gass
called Cioran's
The Temptation to Exist
"a philosophical
romance
on the modern themes of alienation, absurdity, boredom, futility, decay, the tyranny of history, the vulgarities of change, awareness as agony, reason as disease".
[39]
According to
Susan Sontag
, Cioran's subject is "on being a mind, a consciousness tuned to the highest pitch of refinement" and "[i]n Cioran's writings... the mind is a voyeur. But not upon 'the world.' Upon itself. Cioran is, to a degree reminiscent of
Beckett
, concerned with the absolute integrity of thought. That is, with the reduction or circumscription of thought to thinking about thinking."
[40]
: 80
Cioran became most famous while writing not in Romanian but French, a language with which he had struggled since his youth. During Cioran's lifetime,
Saint-John Perse
called him "the greatest French writer to honor our language since the death of
Paul Valery
."
[41]
Cioran's tone and usage in his adopted language were seldom as harsh as in Romanian (though his use of Romanian is said to be more original).
[
citation needed
]
Legacy
[
edit
]
After the death of Cioran's long-term companion, Simone Boue, a collection of Cioran's manuscripts (over 30 notebooks) were found in the couple's apartment by a manager who tried to auction them in 2005. A decision taken by the
Court of Appeal of Paris
stopped the commercial sale of the collection. However, in March 2011, the Court of Appeal ruled that the seller was the legitimate owner of the manuscripts. The manuscripts were purchased by Romanian businessman George Br?iloiu for €405,000.
[42]
An aged Cioran is the main character in a play by Romanian dramatist-actor
Matei Vi?niec
,
Mansard? la Paris cu vedere spre moarte
("A Paris Loft with a View on Death"). The play, depicting an imaginary meeting between Vi?niec and Cioran,
[43]
was first brought to the stage in 2007, under the direction of Radu Afrim and with a cast of Romanian and
Luxembourgian
actors; Cioran was played by Constantin Cojocaru.
[44]
Stagings were organized in the Romanian city of
Sibiu
[43]
[44]
and in Luxembourg, at
Esch-sur-Alzette
(both Sibiu and
Luxembourg City
were the year's
European Capital of Culture
).
[43]
In 2009, the
Romanian Academy
granted posthumous membership to Cioran.
[45]
Susan Sontag was a great admirer of Cioran, calling him "one of the most delicate minds of real power writing today."
[40]
: 82
She wrote an essay on his work that served as the introduction to the English translation of
The Temptation to Exist
, published in 1967. The essay was included in Sontag's 1969 collection
Styles of Radical Will
.
Under the rule of
Nicolae Ceau?escu
, Cioran's works were banned.
[25]
In 1974,
Francoist Spain
banned
The Evil Demiurge
for being "atheist, blasphemous, and anti-Christian", which Cioran considered "one of the greatest jokes in his absurd existence."
[1]
American electronic musician
Oneohtrix Point Never
named a song for Emil on their 2009 release
Zones Without People
.
[46]
Danish
neofolk
musician
Kim Larsen
re-enacted Cioran's choking arms photograph on the cover of the 2021 album
Your Love Can't Hold This Wreath of Sorrow
.
In the 2023 Mexican/US English-language film
Rotting in the Sun
actor and character (and director)
Sebastian Silva
is seen reading Cioran's book, The Trouble with Being Born, at the beach and quotes passages from it.
Major works
[
edit
]
Romanian
[
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]
- Pe culmile disper?rii
(translated "
On the Heights of Despair
"), Editura "Funda?ia pentru Literatur? ?i Art?", Bucharest 1934
- Cartea am?girilor
("The Book of Delusions"), Bucharest 1936
- Schimbarea la fa?? a Romaniei
("The Transfiguration of Romania"), Bucharest 1936
- Lacrimi ?i Sfin?i
("Tears and Saints"), "Editura autorului" 1937
- Indreptar p?tima?
("The Passionate Handbook"), Humanitas, Bucharest 1991
French
[
edit
]
All of Cioran's major works in French have been translated into English by
Richard Howard
.
- Precis de decomposition
("
A Short History of Decay
"),
Gallimard
1949
- Syllogismes de l'amertume
(tr. "
All Gall Is Divided
"), Gallimard 1952
- La Tentation d'exister
("The Temptation to Exist"), Gallimard 1956 | English edition:
ISBN
978-0-226-10675-5
- Histoire et utopie
("
History and Utopia
"), Gallimard 1960
- La Chute dans le temps
("The Fall into Time"), Gallimard 1964
- Le Mauvais demiurge
(literally
The Evil
Demiurge
; tr. "The New Gods"), Gallimard 1969
- De l'inconvenient d'etre ne
("
The Trouble with Being Born
"), Gallimard 1973
- Ecartelement
(tr. "Drawn and Quartered"), Gallimard 1979
- Exercices d'admiration
1986, and
Aveux et anathemes
1987 (tr. and grouped as "Anathemas and Admirations")
- Œuvres
(Collected works), Gallimard-Quatro 1995
- Mon pays/?ara mea
("My country", written in French, the book was first published in Romania in a bilingual volume), Humanitas, Bucharest, 1996
- Cahiers 1957?1972
("Notebooks"), Gallimard 1997
- Des larmes et des saints
,
L'Herne
| English edition:
ISBN
978-0-226-10672-4
- Sur les cimes du desespoir
,
L'Herne
, | English edition:
ISBN
978-0-226-10670-0
- Le Crepuscule des pensees
, L'Herne,
- Jadis et naguere
, L'Herne
- Valery face a ses idoles
, L'Herne, 1970, 2006
- De la France
, L'Herne, 2009
- Transfiguration de la Roumanie
, L'Herne, 2009
- Cahier Cioran
, L'Herne, 2009 (Several unpublished documents, letters and photographs).
See also
[
edit
]
Notes
[
edit
]
- ^
a
b
c
d
"Obituary: Emil Cioran"
.
The Independent
. 23 October 2011
. Retrieved
22 March
2021
.
- ^
Cioran, Emil (1996).
On the Heights of Despair
. p. 13.
- ^
a
b
Regier, Willis (2005).
"Cioran's Nietzsche"
.
French Forum
.
30
(3): 76.
doi
:
10.1353/frf.2006.0012
.
JSTOR
40552402
.
S2CID
170571716
– via JSTOR.
- ^
Regier, Willis (2004).
"Cioran's Insomnia"
.
MLN
.
119
(5): 994?1012.
doi
:
10.1353/mln.2005.0018
.
JSTOR
3251887
.
S2CID
170780097
– via JSTOR.
- ^
Regier, Willis (2004).
"Cioran's Insomnia"
.
MLN
.
119
(5): 996.
doi
:
10.1353/mln.2005.0018
.
JSTOR
3251887
.
S2CID
170780097
– via JSTOR.
- ^
Cioran, 1933, in Ornea, p.191
- ^
Cioran, 1934, in Ornea, p.192
- ^
Cioran, 1933, in Ornea, p.190
- ^
Cioran, 1936, in Ornea, p.192
- ^
Jakob, Michel; Cioran, Emil; Greenspan, Kate (1994).
"Wakefulness and Obsession: An Interview with E.M. Cioran"
.
Salmagundi
.
103
(103): 143.
JSTOR
40548762
– via JSTOR.
- ^
Jakob, Michel; Cioran, Emil; Greenspan, Kate (1994).
"Wakefulness and Obsession: An Interview with E.M. Cioran"
.
Salmagundi
.
103
(103): 126.
JSTOR
40548762
– via JSTOR.
- ^
Acquisto, Joseph (2015).
The Fall out of Redemption: Writing and Thinking Beyond Salvation in Baudelaire, Cioran, Fondane, Agamben, and Nancy
. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 142.
- ^
Ornea, p.40
- ^
Ornea, p.50-52, 98
- ^
Cioran, in Ornea, p.98
- ^
Ornea, p.127, 130, 137?141
- ^
Cioran, 1934, in Ornea, p.127
- ^
Cioran, 1936, in Ornea, p. 141
- ^
Crainic, 1937, in Ornea, p.143
- ^
Ornea, pp. 143–144
- ^
"The Philosopher of Failure: Emil Cioran's Heights of Despair"
.
Los Angeles Review of Books
. 28 November 2016
. Retrieved
14 March
2024
.
- ^
Gruzinska, Aleksandra (2001).
"(Anti-)Semitism 1890s/1990s: Octave Mirbeau and E. M. Cioran"
.
Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature
.
55
(1): 18.
doi
:
10.2307/1348152
.
JSTOR
1348152
.
S2CID
146282921
– via JSTOR.
- ^
Cioran, 1940, in Ornea, p.197
- ^
Cioran, 1972, in Ornea, p.198
- ^
a
b
Pace, Eric (22 June 1995).
"E. M. Cioran, 84, Novelist And Philosopher of Despair"
.
The New York Times
. The New York Times
. Retrieved
13 September
2020
.
- ^
Cioran, Emil (1998).
The Trouble with Being Born
. Arcade Publishing. p. 62.
- ^
Regier, Willis (2005).
"Cioran's Nietzsche"
.
French Forum
.
30
(3): 84.
doi
:
10.1353/frf.2006.0012
.
JSTOR
40552402
.
S2CID
170571716
– via JSTOR.
- ^
Regier, Willis (2004).
"Cioran's Insomnia"
.
MLN
.
119
(5): 1000.
doi
:
10.1353/mln.2005.0018
.
JSTOR
3251887
.
S2CID
170780097
– via JSTOR.
- ^
A Short History of Decay, p. ix.
- ^
Weiss, Jason.
"E. M. Cioran"
.
Itineraries of a Hummingbird
. Archived from
the original
on 28 July 2017
. Retrieved
3 June
2024
.
- ^
Bradatan, Costica (28 November 2016).
"The Philosopher of Failure: Emil Cioran's Heights of Despair"
.
Los Angeles Review of Books
. Retrieved
8 January
2018
.
- ^
Kirkup, James (24 June 1995).
"Obituary: Emil Cioran"
.
The Independent
. Retrieved
23 March
2020
.
- ^
Drawn and Quartered
, p. 148.
- ^
"E.M. Cioran"
.
Itineraries of a Hummingbird
.
- ^
Weiss, Jason (1991).
Writing At Risk: Interviews Uncommon Writers
. University of Iowa Press. p.
9
.
ISBN
9781587292491
.
I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?.
- ^
Cioran, Emil (1992).
On the Heights of Despair
. University of Chicago Press. p. 106.
- ^
Cioran, 4 December 1989, in
Newsweek
- ^
Regier, Willis (2005).
"Cioran's Nietzsche"
.
French Forum
.
30
(3): 78.
doi
:
10.1353/frf.2006.0012
.
JSTOR
40552402
.
S2CID
170571716
– via JSTOR.
- ^
Gass, William H. (22 August 1968).
"The Evil Demiurge"
.
The New York Review
.
ISSN
0028-7504
. Retrieved
28 September
2022
.
- ^
a
b
Sontag, Susan (1969).
Styles of Radical Will
. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
ISBN
978-0312420215
.
- ^
Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston,
Searching for Cioran
(Indiana University Press), p.6
- ^
"Manuscripts by Romanian Philosopher Cioran Fetch €400,000"
.
Balkan Insight
. 8 April 2011
. Retrieved
22 March
2021
.
- ^
a
b
c
(in Romanian)
"Teatru romanesc in Luxemburg"
, at
HotNews.ro
; retrieved 15 November 2007
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Ioan T. Morar
, "Cronic? de lang? teatre. A f?cut Emil Cioran karate?", in
Academia Ca?avencu
, 45/2007, p.30
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(in Romanian)
Membrii post-mortem al Academiei Romane
, at the
Romanian Academy
site
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"Zones Without People"
.
References
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External links
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- Cioran.eu
? Project Cioran: texts, interviews, multimedia, links.
- E. M. Cioran on Samuel Beckett
The website states that: "Scattered throughout the one thousand pages of Cioran's
Cahiers 1957?1972
are many intriguing remarks about Beckett and his work, of which the following are among the more memorable."
- The Book of Delusions
[
Cartea am?girilor
] (chapter 5), translated with an introduction by Camelia Elias.
Hyperion: On the Future of Aesthetics
, Vol. V, Issue 1, MAY 2010.
- Isabela Vasiliu-Scraba,
Ideas- a variable background in Cioran-s writing
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