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.
Emil Cioran
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.
