| Title:
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THE TEMPTATION TO EXIST
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| By: |
Susan Sontag, E.M. Cioran, Richard Howard (Trans) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£12.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0226106756 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780226106755 |
| Publisher: |
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
20 July, 1998 |
| Edition: |
Univ of Chicago PR ed. |
| Pages: |
224 |
| Translated from: |
Romanian |
| Description: |
This collection of 11 essays originally appeared in France during the 1960s and created a literary whirlwind on the Left Bank. In the essays, Cioran writes incisively about Western civilizations, the writer, the novel, mystics, apostles and philosophers. |
| Synopsis: |
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."An intellectual bombshell that blasts away at all kinds of cant, sham and conventionality. . . . [Cioran's] language is so erotic, his handling of words so seductive, that the act of reading becomes an encounter in the erogenous zone".--Jonah Raskin, "L. A. Weekly" E. M. Cioran (1911-1995) was born and educated in Romania and lived in Paris from 1937 until his death. He is the author of numerous works, including "On the Heights of Despair", also available from the University of Chicago Press. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |