12 scrisori de pe culmile disperării By Emil M. Cioran

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12 scrisori de pe culmile disper riiBorn in 1911 in R inari a small village in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania raised under the rule of a father who was a Romanian Orthodox priest and a mother who was prone to depression Emil Cioran wrote his first five books in Romanian Some of these are collections of brief essays one or two pages on average others are collections of aphorisms Suffering from insomnia since his adolescent years in Sibiu the young Cioran studied philosophy in the little Paris of Bucarest. 12 scrisori de pe culmile disperării booking A prolific publicist he became a well known figure along with Mircea Eliade Constantin No ca and his future close friend Eugene Ionesco with whom he shared the Royal Foundation s Young Writers Prize in 1934 for his first book On the Heights of Despair Born in 1911 in R inari a small village in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania raised under the rule of a father who was a Romanian Orthodox priest and a mother who was prone to depression Emil Cioran wrote his first five books in Romanian Some of these are collections of brief essays one or two pages on average others are collections of aphorisms Suffering from insomnia since his adolescent years in Sibiu the young Cioran studied philosophy in the little Paris of Bucarest. 12 scrisori de pe culmile disperării ebooks free A prolific publicist he became a well known figure along with Mircea Eliade Constantin No ca and his future close friend Eugene Ionesco with whom he shared the Royal Foundation s Young Writers Prize in 1934 for his first book On the Heights of Despair Influenced by the German romantics by Schopenhauer Nietzsche and the Lebensphilosophie of Schelling and Bergson by certain Russian writers including Chestov Rozanov and Dostoyevsky and by the Romanian poet Eminescu Cioran wrote lyrical and expansive meditations that were often metaphysical in nature and whose recurrent themes were death despair solitude history music saintliness and the mystics cf Tears and Saints 1937 all of which are themes that one finds again in his French writings In his highly controversial book The Transfiguration of Romania 1937 Cioran who was at that time close to the Romanian fascists violently criticized his country and his compatriots on the basis of a contrast between such little nations as Romania which were contemptible from the perspective of universal history and great nations such as France or Germany which took their destiny into their own hands After spending two years in Germany Cioran arrived in Paris in 1936 He continued to write in Romanian until the early 1940s he wrote his last article in Romanian in 1943 which is also the year in which he began writing in French The break with Romanian became definitive in 1946 when in the course of translating Mallarm he suddenly decided to give up his native tongue since no one spoke it in Paris He then began writing in French a book that thanks to numerous intensive revisions would eventually become the impressive A Short History of Decay 1949 the first of a series of ten books in which Cioran would continue to explore his perennial obsessions with a growing detachment that allies him equally with the Greek sophists the French moralists and the oriental sages He wrote existential vituperations and other destructive reflections in a classical French style that he felt was diametrically opposed to the looseness of his native Romanian he described it as being like a straight jacket that required him to control his temperamental excesses and his lyrical flights The books in which he expressed his radical disillusionment appeared with decreasing frequency over a period of than three decades during which time he shared his solitude with his companion Simone Bou in a miniscule garret in the center of Paris where he lived as a spectator and turned in on himself and maintaining an ever greater distance from a world that he rejected as much on the historical level History and Utopia 1960 as on the ontological The Fall into Time 1964 raising his misanthropy to heights of subtlety The Trouble with being Born 1973 while also allowing to appear from time to time a humanism composed of irony bitterness and preciosity Exercices d admiration 1986 and the posthumously published Notebooks Denied the right to return to Romania during the years of the communist regime and attracting international attention only late in his career Cioran died in Paris in 1995 Nicolas Cavaill s Translated by Thomas Cousineau site_link.