5/13/2023 0 Comments Squartamento by Emil M. Cioran![]() ![]() This is an author to read at moments of despair and melancholy. He explained that writing had been an alternative to shooting himself. The book contains in embryo much of the lucidly bleak, nihilistic thinking that he’d develop throughout his life. ![]() In 1934, at the age of only 23, he published his first book in Romanian, On the Heights of Despair. The writer’s Romanian origins are often taken as the source of a brooding, Romantic, fatalistic temperament while his father’s ecclesiastical calling finds echoes in his son’s unswerving preoccupation with themes of religion, sainthood and the dangers and joys of atheism.įrom 1920 to 1927, Cioran studied at the lycée in Sibiu, in the outer reaches of Transylvania. Both facts were to be key in his later work. ![]() For Emil Mihai Cioran is very much worthy of inclusion in the line of the great French and European moral philosophers and writers of maxims stretching back to Montaigne, Chamfort, Pascal and La Rochefoucauld.Ĭioran was born in Rasinari, Romania, in April 1911. The speaker smiled, and immediately confounded his German interpreter by beginning his presentation with the words: ‘Mais je ne suis qu’un déconneur’ / ‘But I’m just a joker’.Ī few of his critics might agree, but they would be wrong. He was introduced with rhetorical pomp and flattering comparisons to the likes of Kierkegaard and Schopenhauer. Towards the end of the twentieth century, a celebrated Romanian-French philosopher and aphorist was invited to speak in Zurich. ![]()
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