Description Now in paperback, an "antidote to a world gone mad for bedside affirmation" (Washington Post).
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Eugene Thacker is the author of several books, including Infinite Resignation and In The Dust of This Planet.
He lives in New York City.
He won the PEN Translation Prize for his translation of A Short History of Decay.
Richard Howard is the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, award-winning translator, essayist, teacher, and literary critic.
His many books include A Short History of Decay, Drawn and Quartered, The Temptation to Exist, The Trouble with Being Born, History and Utopia, and Anathemas and Admirations, all in translations by Richard Howard and published by Arcade.
In the late 1930s, he left his native Romania for Paris, where he lived and wrote until his death in 1995.
Cioran was the son of an Orthodox priest.
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The award-winning poet and translator Richard Howard has characterized them as "manic humor, howls of pain, and a vestige of tears," but, as he notes too, in these expressions of the philosopher\'s existential estrangement, there glows "a certain sweetness for all of what Cioran calls \'amertume.\'"About the Author E.
It revealed him as an aphorist in a long tradition descending from the ancient Greeks through La Rochefoucault but with a gift for lacerating, subversively off-kilter insights, a twentieth-century nose for the absurdities of the human condition, and what Baudelaire called "spleen." The Aphorisms collected here address themes from the atrophy of utterance and the condition of the West to the abyss, solitude, time, religion, music, the vitality of love, history, and the void.
All Gall Is Divided is the second book Cioran published in French after moving from his native Romania and establishing himself in Paris.
Cioran has been called the last worthy disciple of Nietzsche and "a sort of final philosopher of the Western world" who "combines the compassion of poetry and the audacity of cosmic clowning" (Washington Post).
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Description Now in paperback, an "antidote to a world gone mad for bedside affirmation" (Washington Post)
