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Description for Tears and Saints
Paperback. In this work, Cioran touches on nearly all the themes that preoccupied him during his writing career. Translator(s): Zarifopol-Johnston, Ilinca. Num Pages: 154 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 143 x 9. Weight in Grams: 198.
By the mid-1930s, Emil Cioran was already known as a leader of a new generation of politically committed Romanian intellectuals. Researching another, more radical book, Cioran was spending hours in a library poring over the lives of saints. As a modern hagiographer, Cioran "dreamt" himself "the chronicler of these saints' falls between heaven and earth, the intimate knower of the ardors in their hearts, the historian of God's insomniacs." Inspired by Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil, Cioran "searched for the origin of tears." He asked himself if saints could be "the sources of tears' better light."
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By the mid-1930s, Emil Cioran was already known as a leader of a new generation of politically committed Romanian intellectuals. Researching another, more radical book, Cioran was spending hours in a library poring over the lives of saints. As a modern hagiographer, Cioran "dreamt" himself "the chronicler of these saints' falls between heaven and earth, the intimate knower of the ardors in their hearts, the historian of God's insomniacs." Inspired by Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil, Cioran "searched for the origin of tears." He asked himself if saints could be "the sources of tears' better light."
"Who can tell?" ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Number of pages
154
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
Weight
197g
Number of Pages
154
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226106748
SKU
V9780226106748
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99-50
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