On the Heights of Despair

by Emil M. Cioran

Book Overview

Born of a terrible insomnia-"a dizzying lucidity which would turn even paradise into hell"-this book presents the youthful Cioran, a self-described "Nietzsche still complete with his Zarathustra, his poses, his mystical clown's tricks, a whole circus of the heights."

On the Heights of Despair shows Cioran's first grappling with themes he would return to in his mature works: despair and decay, absurdity and alienation, futility and the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226106713
• ISBN13: 9780226106717
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"