The Temptation to Exist by Emil M. Cioran, Susan Sontag, Richard Howard

The Temptation to Exist

Emil M. Cioran, Susan Sontag, Richard Howard

224 pages first pub 1956 (editions)

nonfiction essays philosophy challenging reflective slow-paced

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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."A ...

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