Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780241343463
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Vendor
Penguin Classics
Vekt
147 gr
Høyde
197 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
12 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, U, P, 01, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
192
Forfatter
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E. M. Cioran (1911-1995) was one of Central Europe's most remarkable philosophers, author of what William Gass called romances on 'alienation, absurdity, boredom, futility, decay, the tyranny of history, the vulgarities of change, awareness as agony, reason as disease'. A Romanian, he lived much of his life in Paris and many of his major works were written in French, including A Short History of Decay, The Trouble with Being Born and Drawn and Quartered.
A Short History of Decay (1949) is E. M. Cioran's nihilistic and witty collection of aphoristic essays concerning the nature of civilization in mid 20th-century Europe. Touching upon man's need to worship, the feebleness of God, the downfall of the Ancient Greeks and the melancholy baseness of all existence, Cioran's pieces are pessimistic in the extreme, but also display a beautiful certainty that renders them delicate, vivid, and memorable. Illuminating and brutally honest, A Short History of Decay dissects man's decadence in a remarkable series of moving and beautiful pieces.
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Witty and nihilistic essays from one of Central Europe's most remarkable philosophers.
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780241343463
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Vendor
Penguin Classics
Vekt
147 gr
Høyde
197 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
12 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, U, P, 01, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
192
Forfatter