The Trouble With Being Born, 9780241467275
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Find dark humor in life’s futility in these poetic aphorisms.
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The Trouble With Being Born

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    192 pages

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    1 February 2021

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Summary

The Trouble With Being Born: Aphorisms on Existence

Darkly comic aphorisms on time, mortality, and human relationships from one of the twentieth century’s great philosophers.

“Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one’s reach.”

In The Trouble With Being Born, E. M. Cioran grapples with the major questions of human existence: birth, death, God, the passing of time, how to relate to others, and how to make ourselves…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241467275
ISBN-10:0241467276
Series:Penguin Modern Classics
Author:E.M. Cioran, Richard Howard
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:192
Release Date:1 February 2021
Weight:147g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm x 11mm
About The Author

E.M. Cioran

E. M. Cioran (1911-1995) was one of Central Europe’s most remarkable philosophers, whose thinking was influenced by pessimism and existentialism. A Romanian, he lived most of his life in Paris. His major works in Romanian include On the Heights of Despair and, in French, A Short History of Decay and Drawn and Quartered. He refused nearly every literary prize he was awarded.

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