Name: The Temptation to Exist

Author: E. M. Cioran
Year: 1956
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Philosophy, Non Fiction, Essays
Culture: France

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ISBNs:
9780226106755
0226106756
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 sort of final philosopher of the Western world. His statements have the compression of poetry and the audacity of cosmic clowning." -
"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,
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