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Birth, death, and the laughable accident of existence: a sharp contemplation.

The Trouble with Being Born

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    212 pages

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    1 February 2013

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Summary

“A love of Cioran creates an urge to press his writing into someone’s hand, and is followed by an equal urge to pull it away as poison.”– The New Yorker

In this volume, which reaffirms the uncompromising brilliance of his mind, Cioran strips the human condition down to its most basic components, birth and death, suggesting that disaster lies not in the prospect of death but in the fact of birth, “that laughable accident.” In the lucid, aphoristic style that characterizes his …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781611457407
ISBN-10:1611457408
Author:E.M. Cioran
Publisher:Arcade Publishing
Imprint:Arcade Publishing
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:212
Release Date:1 February 2013
Weight:249g
Dimensions:20mm x 140mm x 208mm
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About The Author

E.M. Cioran

E. M. Cioran left his native land of Romania for Paris in the late 1930s, where he lived and wrote until his death in 1995. His many books include Anathemas and Admirations, A Short History of Decay, and The Trouble with Being Born.

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