Emile M. Cioran

He was the greatest genius of aphorism in the history of philosophy, and he was the greatest monster of despair. --Joseph Bottum, Words of Nectar and Cyanide, First Things, May 2009


The trouble with being Cioran, by Sam Munson, The National, April 30, 2009, review of Searching for Cioran, by Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston (via Arts & Letters Daily)

Criticism (articles, essays, reviews): Portrait of the Philosopher as a Young Man, review by Zbigniew Janowski, of An Infamous Past: E.M. Cioran and the Rise of Fascism in Romania, First Things, February 2006

Planet Cioran: Life and Works, by Jan Van Biervliet