Anathemas and Admirations
- Authors
- Cioran, E.M.
- Publisher
- Arcade Publishing
- Tags
- philosophy , writing , non-fiction
- ISBN
- 9781559704618
- Date
- 1987-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.23 MB
- Lang
- en
In this collection of essays and epigrams, E. M. Cioran gives us portraits and evaluations - which he calls "admirations" - of Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the poet Paul Valery, and Micea Eliade, among others. In alternating sections of aphorisms - his "anathemas" - he delivers insights on such topics as solitude, flattery, vanity, friendship, insomnia, music, morality, God, and the lure of disillusion.