Anathemas and Admirations

Anathemas and AdmirationsBy E. M. Cioran. Translated by Richard Howard.Arcade: New York, 1991. 256 pp. $22.95. I’ve always been a sucker for well­-articulated despair and fin de siecle weariness, and what better way seemingly to serve this indulgence than with the latest acerbic and eloquent offering of E. M. Cioran, the solitary Romanian aphorist and philosopher, […]