The Trouble With Being Born
$21.55
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
2 February 2021
Summary
Darkly comic aphorisms on time, mortality and human relationships from one of the twentieth century’s great philosophers.
“Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately it is within no one’s reach.”
In The Trouble With Being Born, E. M. Cioran grapples with the major questions of human existence—birth, death, God, the passing of time, how to relate to others, and how to make ourselves get out of bed in the morning.
In a series of interlinki…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241467275 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241467276 |
| Author: | E.M. Cioran, Richard Howard |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 2 February 2021 |
| Weight: | 160g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 13mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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About The Author
E.M. Cioran
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.
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