On the Heights of Despair

Synopsis

A classic work of philosophical reflection on despair, decay, and the futility of existence that publishers weekly said “puts cioran in the company of nietzsche and kierkegaard”born of a terrible insomnia—"a dizzying lucidity which would turn even paradise into hell"—this book presents the potent, self-lacerating insights of the youthful e. M. Cioran, a self-described "nietzsche still complete with his zarathustra, his poses, his mystical clown's tricks, a whole circus of the heights.