The Temptation to Exist by E M Cioran

The Temptation to Exist by E M Cioran

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 Temptation to Exist first introduced this brilliant European thinker twenty years ago to American readers, in a superb translation by Richard Howard. This literary mystique around Cioran continues to grow, and The Temptation to Exist has become an underground classic. In this work Cioran writes about Western civilizations, the writer, the novel, about mystics, apostles, philosophers. For those to whom the very word philosophy brings visions of arduous reading, be assured: Cioran is crystal-clear, his style quotable and aphoristic.“A sort of final philosopher of the Western world. His statements have the compression of poetry and the audacity of cosmic clowning”—The Washington Post

E. M. Cioran was the son of an Orthodox priest. In the late 1930s, he left his native Romania for Paris, where he lived and wrote until his death in 1995. His many books include A Short History of Decay, Drawn and Quartered, The Temptation to Exist, The Trouble with Being Born, History and Utopia, and Anathemas and Admirations, all in translations by Richard Howard and published by Arcade.

Richard Howard is the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, award-winning translator, essayist, teacher, and literary critic. He won the PEN Translation Prize for his translation of A Short History of Decay. He lives in New York City.

Eugene Thacker is the author of several books, including Infinite Resignation and In The Dust of This Planet. He teaches at the New School in New York City.

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Title	The Temptation to Exist
Author	E M Cioran
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Skyhorse Publishing
Year published	2013-02-21
Number of pages	224
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