The Temptation to Exist by Emil M. Cioran

The Temptation to Exist

Emil M. Cioran with Richard Howard (Translator)

222 pages first pub 1956 (editions)

nonfiction essays philosophy challenging reflective slow-paced

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"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 This collection of eleven essays, when originally published in France, created a literary wh...

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