A writer who does stupid things in his youth is like a woman with a shameful past--never forgiven, never forgotten. E. M. Cioran, the renowned Romanian-French nihilist philosopher and literary figure, knew this better than anyone. Alongside Heidegger, Sartre, Paul de Mann, and others, Cioran was one of the great scholars of the twentieth century to be seduced by totalitarianism: he experienced a most disturbing intellectual and moral drama. More than any other study of Cioran, Marta Petreu's intensive investigation of his life and work confronts the central problem of his biography: his...
A writer who does stupid things in his youth is like a woman with a shameful past--never forgiven, never forgotten. E. M. Cioran, the renowned Romania...
