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A Short History of Decay

E. M. Cioran
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics)
Published: August 2, 2018
ISBN: 9780241343463
192 pages
Country of publication: United Kingdom

£9.99

A Short History of Decay (1949) is E. M. Cioran’s nihilistic and witty collection of aphoristic essays concerning the nature of civilization in mid 20th-century Europe. Touching upon man’s need to worship, the feebleness of God, the downfall of the Ancient Greeks and the melancholy baseness of all existence, Cioran’s pieces are pessimistic in the extreme, but also display a beautiful certainty that renders them delicate, vivid, and memorable. Illuminating and brutally honest, A Short History of Decay dissects man’s decadence in a remarkable series of moving and beautiful pieces.

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