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On the Heights of Despair

by Emil Cioran

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1930
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On the Heights of Despair is Emil Cioran's first book, written in Romanian when he was in his early twenties. It is a collection of short reflections and fragments on subjects that stayed central to his philosophy, such as despair, sleeplessness, solitude, madness and the experience of suffering.

Cioran was a Romanian philosopher who later wrote in French and became known for his pessimism and his aphorisms. This early work is intense and personal.

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Emil Cioran

Cioran wrote aphorisms about despair, insomnia and the pointlessness of having been born, in Romanian first and then in French, a language he learned to write with obsessive care after moving to Paris in 1937. On the Heights of Despair appeared when he was twenty-three, produced during a stretch of sleeplessness he said ran for years.

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First published
1930
Reading time
About 3 hours
Pages
134
Language
English
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