By E. M. Cioran
ISBN-10: 0226106756
ISBN-13: 9780226106755
This number of 11 essays initially seemed in France thirty years in the past and created a literary whirlwind at the Left financial institution. Cioran writes incisively approximately Western civilizations, the author, the unconventional, mystics, apostles, and philosophers.
"A type of ultimate thinker of the Western international. His statements have the compression of poetry and the audacity of cosmic clowning."—Washington Post
"An highbrow bombshell that blasts away in any respect different types of cant, sham and conventionality. . . . [Cioran's] language is so erotic, his dealing with of phrases so seductive, that the act of examining turns into an come upon within the erogenous zone."—Jonah Raskin, L.A. Weekly
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Latin America? South Africa? Australia? It is from this direction that we must, it appears, expect our relief, the changing of the guard. The future belongs to the suburbs of the globe.
Wavering, agonized , he will drag out his days as an invalid of duration, exposed at once to the lure of becoming and of eternity. If, according to Meister Eckhart, there is an "odor" of time, there must with all the more reason be an odor of history. How can we remain insensitive to it? On a more immediate level, I distinguish the illusion, the nullity, the rottenness of "civilization"; yet I feel I belong to this rottenness : I am the lover of carrion. I cannot forgive our age for having sub jugated us to the point of haunting us even when we detach ourselves from it .
64 I THE TEMPTATION TO EXIST So many conquests, acquisitions, ideas-where ",ll they find their continuation? In Russia? In North America? Each has already drawn the consequences of the worst of Europe . . Latin America? South Africa? Australia? It is from this direction that we must, it appears, expect our relief, the changing of the guard. The future belongs to the suburbs of the globe.
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