A Short History of Decay - Couverture souple

Cioran, E. M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0241343461 ISBN 13 : 9780241343463

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 2018

Synopsis

A Short History of Decay (1949) is E. M. Cioran's nihilistic and witty collection of aphoristic essays concerning the nature of civilization in mid 20th-century Europe. Touching upon man's need to worship, the feebleness of God, the downfall of the Ancient Greeks and the melancholy baseness of all existence, Cioran's pieces are pessimistic in the extreme, but also display a beautiful certainty that renders them delicate, vivid, and memorable. Illuminating and brutally honest, A Short History of Decay dissects man's decadence in a remarkable series of moving and beautiful pieces.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

E. M. Cioran (1911-1995) was one of Central Europe's most remarkable philosophers, whose thinking was influenced by pessimism and existentialism. A Romanian, he lived most of his life in Paris. His major works in Romanian include On the Heights of Despair and, in French, A Short History of Decay and Drawn and Quartered. He refused nearly every literary prize he was awarded.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0241343461
• ISBN 13: 9780241343463
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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