Save us from saviours
Thomas Pavel: E.M. Cioran, 27 May 2010
Searching for Cioran
by Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston.
Indiana, 284 pp., £18.99, March 2009,978 0 253 35267 5 Show More
by Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston.
Indiana, 284 pp., £18.99, March 2009,
A Short History of Decay
by E.M. Cioran, translated by Richard Howard.
Penguin, 186 pp., £9.99, May 2010,978 0 14 119272 7 Show More
by E.M. Cioran, translated by Richard Howard.
Penguin, 186 pp., £9.99, May 2010,
“... do away with guilt, celebrate instinct, preach violence and follow the call of its fierce heart. Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston’s Searching for Cioran, which discusses the intellectual development of the Romanian-born French essayist, makes clear that in the days before and after the First World War, such Nietzschean calls were eagerly listened to. In the ... ”