A Short History of Decay
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- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
15 August 2018
Summary
Witty and nihilistic essays from one of Central Europe’s most remarkable philosophers.
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 certa…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241343463 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241343461 |
| Author: | E.M. Cioran |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 15 August 2018 |
| Weight: | 150g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 127mm 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, 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.
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