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Loading... Drawn and Quartered (original 1979; edition 2012)by E. M. Cioran, Richard Howard (Translator), Eugene Thacker (Foreword)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Este es el segundo libro que leo de Cioran. Lo que en su primer libro me pareció una especie de delirio poético juvenil, aquí tiene la depuración de una madurez resignada. Cioran es un místico de la duda y de la miseria, siempre vale la pena leerlo. Página tras página de pensamientos geniales y devastadores. ( ) The comparisons to Nietzsche were unjustified; with this book, at least (and I'll have to read some of his others before feeling comfortable making broad statements), I just felt as if I were reading someone taking a little too much pride in his anger/pessimism/negativity-- even if many of the points he was making were valid. no reviews | add a review
In this collection of aphorisms and short essays, E.M. Cioran sets about the task of peeling off the layers of false realities with which society masks the truth. For him, real hope lies in this task, and thus, while he perceives the world darkly, he refuses to give in to despair. He hits upon this ultimate truth by developing his notion of human history and events as "a procession of delusions," striking out at the so-called "Fallacies of Hope." By examining the relationship between truth and action and between absolutes, unknowables, and frauds, Cioran comes out, for once, in favor of being. No library descriptions found. |
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