La tentación de existir

Sinopsis

This collection of eleven essays originally appeared in France thirty years ago and created a literary whirlwind on the Left Bank. Cioran writes incisively about Western civilizations, the writer, the novel, mystics, apostles, and philosophers."A sort of final philosopher of the Western world. His statements have the compression of poetry and the audacity of cosmic clowning."--Washington Post"An intellectual bombshell that blasts away at all kinds of cant, sham and conventionality. . . .