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On the Heights of Despair (Romanian: Pe culmile disperării) is a Romanian philosophical work written by Emil Cioran, published in 1934 as his first book. It consists of several brief reflections on negative themes which later permeated Cioran's work, such as death, insomnia and insanity.
- Emil Cioran
- 156
- 1934
- 1934
A collection of essays by the Romanian-French philosopher E. M. Cioran, translated and introduced by Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston. The book explores themes such as suffering, despair, lyricality, irony, and the absurd in a style that blends poetry and prose.
1 de out. de 1996 · On the Heights of Despair shows 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 theoretician of despair, for whom writing and philosophy both share the ...
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- Emil Cioran
- $29
- University of Chicago Press
4.16. 7,966 ratings704 reviews. Born of a terrible insomnia—"a dizzying lucidity which would turn even paradise into hell"—this book presents the youthful Emil Cioran, a self-described "Nietzsche still complete with his Zarathustra, his poses, his mystical clown's tricks, a whole circus of the heights." On the Heights of Despair shows ...
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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.
- Simone Boué
- Romanian; stateless after 1948, when Romania became a communist country
On the Heights of Despair shows 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.
28 de nov. de 2016 · Emil Cioran was a Romanian-born French philosopher and author of savage, unsettling beauty. He wrote himself out of death over and over again, and explored the theme of failure in various aspects of human existence and history.
