About
Emil Cioran was a Romanian-born philosopher and writer who settled in France in 1937. After early works in Romanian, he adopted French as his writing language, producing aphoristic and pessimistic works on the human condition. His incisive style and exploration of despair, absurdity, and decline earned him international recognition. He was posthumously elected to the Romanian Academy in 2009.
* 1911-04-08 — † 1995-06-20
Major works
- Pe culmile disperării (1934)essay
- Lacrimi și sfinți (1937)essay
- Précis de décomposition (1949)essay
- Syllogismes de l'amertume (1952)essay
- De l'inconvénient d'être né (1973)essay
Key milestones
- 1937Moves to Paris, where he lives until his death.
- 1949Publishes his first major work in French, A Short History of Decay.
- 2009Posthumously elected to the Romanian Academy.
Themes
despairpessimismhuman conditiondeclineabsurdity
Sources: id.loc.gov · mediafax.ro