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Indlæser... Despre neajunsul de a te fi născut (original 1973; udgave 1995)af Emil Cioran
Work InformationThe Trouble with Being Born af E. M. Cioran (1973)
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Cioran gives us 12 chapters of epigrams on how suffering is joy, how wonderful it is to be miserable, and how anyone with an ounce of introspection or reflection would jump off the nearest cliff immediately. It gets pretty old pretty quick, though there is usually a good one every page or so. This seems to suffer from translation difficulties. As is usually the case with philosophy, the translator seems to have chosen words which are precisely the same in meaning as the originals, and ignoring idiom entirely. This always fails: philosophers may flatter themselves that their words have precision, but they are not mathematicians (nor even logicians, generally), and as such they rely on idiom more than they care to admit. E. M. Cioran (Rumanía, 1911-Francia, 1995), tras obtener una beca del Instituto Francés para cursar el doctorado, fijó su residencia en París en 1937. Entre las obras de este rumano singular, apátrida desde 1946, que escribía en francés y acabó obsesionado con España, destacan Breviario de podredumbre, La tentación de existir, Ensayo sobre el pensamiento reaccionario y otros textos, El aciago demiurgo, Del inconveniente de haber nacido, Desgarradura, Ese maldito yo, De lágrimas y santos e Historia y utopía. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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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 work, Cioran writes of time and death, God and religion, suicide and suffering, and the temptation to silence. Through sharp observation and patient contemplation, Cioran cuts to the heart of the human experience. "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 the company of Nietzsche and Kierkegaard."--Publishers Weekly "No modern writer twists the knife with Cioran's dexterity. . . . His writing . . . is informed with the bitterness of genuine compassion."--Boston Phoenix No library descriptions found. |
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I think it’s a bit deceptive to call this a work of philosophy. If you read the book, you’ll see pretty quickly that Cioran doesn’t have much patience for philosophers. Instead, this seems to me to be a man struggling to in the first place, justify his desire to live in the face of the meaningless of existence, and secondly to articulate and exorcise the neurosises that keep him from taking part in the world, where we are given so little time to feel and experience so much. Cioran mentions an affinity for diary and letter writing - this seems to me to be a kind of polished up notebook, or, if it he had been writing today, a very highbrow Twitter stream. Personally, i like this style very much, and it jives very well with the author’s sensibility. ( )