Epistolary Mania.
Selected letters (1930-1991). By Emil Cioran, Gallimard, 310 p., €21.
Gallimard
Unpublished works, commented reissues, tributes, exegeses, without forgetting a volume of the “Pléiade”… Since his death in 1995, Emil Cioran has still not decided to leave us.
Farewell - firm and definitive - will never be his strong suit.
This singular nihilist, suffering incurably from
“disordered melancholy”
, as he admitted in his voluminous
Notebooks
written between 1957 and 1972, is remembered in our memory with the publication of his correspondence, largely unpublished.
Not a complete, but an anthology of letters written between 1930 and 1991. It is the more or less intimate side of the Roumain de Paris.
160 missives addressed to family, relatives, friends, late lover, and writers.
Among the latter, the faithful Mircea Eliade, Samuel Beckett, and the accomplice Armel Guerne.
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“The letter, a conversation with someone who is absent, represents a major event of solitude. Look for the truth about an author rather in his correspondence than in his work. The work is most often…
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