De l’inconvénient d’être né: Selections
A selection of dark but memorable aphorisms from Emil Cioran’s 1973 De l’inconvénient d’être né. With glosses and English translation.
Romanian authors seem to have (or at least they used to) a particular affinity for French language and culture. Emil Cioran (1911-1995), like his friend and countryman Eugène Ionesco, settled in France and ended up writing most of his works in French. His philosophical meditations express a pessimism of a rather Buddhistic coloring. You can find out a lot about him, in a variety of languages, at cioran.eu.
A selection of dark but memorable aphorisms from Emil Cioran’s 1973 De l’inconvénient d’être né. With glosses and English translation.