The Trouble With Being Born (Penguin Modern Classics)
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The Trouble With Being Born (Penguin Modern Classics)
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Ce-ai păţit, dar spune, ce-ai păţit? - Nimic, nimic, am făcut doar o săritură în afară soartei mele şi nu mai ştiu acum încotro să mă îndrept, spre ce să alerg..."
For Cioran, philistine contrarian for the sake of being contrarian, what is frivolous is true greatness, and world-historic events that changed the whole world are frivolous (of course, other people are too stupid to notice that, unlike our "genius" Mr. Cioran!). No aphorism in the book expresses this contrarian faux-superiority better than this:When I torment myself a little too much for not working, I tell myself that I might just as well be dead and that then I would be working still less… With a long-standing predilection for philosophical pessimism, owing to Arthur Schopenhauer, when I first came across some of Cioran’s dark, ironic aphorisms, I was an instant fan and was eager to explore some of his work. The Trouble With Being Born is one of his best-known books and, since it was published in his later years, I thought it would be a more mature example of his writing style and philosophy. So it seemed like a good place to start. At the same time, I thought The Trouble With Being Born could be risky reading. Based on the book title alone, I expected Cioran’s thoughts to be so pregnant with dreariness that my day would be ruined after absorbing too many of them. Yet reading The Trouble With Being Born was actually a quite different experience. Să simţi singurătatea inconceptibilului neant: asta înseamnă să trăieşti în filosofia plină de lirism a lui Cioran. *Amu... poate cineva, rogu-va, să conceapă neantul?! Eu îl percep ca un gol universal, ceea ce constituie o antinomie, în contextul în care neantul e... nimic pur.* Translated by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and critic Richard Howard, The Trouble With Being Born is a provocative, illuminating testament to a singular mind. Read more Look Inside Details Quinn, Karl (18 August 2020). "Film critics slam festival for dumping controversial Austrian robosex movie". The Age . Retrieved 18 August 2020.
A writer has left his mark on us not because we have read him a great deal but because we have thought of him more than is warranted. I have not frequented Baudelaire or Pascal particularly, but I have not stopped thinking of their miseries, which have accompanied me everywhere as faithfully as my own. Is Cioran sportsmanlike or is he putting a sham sometimes? In the end, does that matter? Emil Cioran is a man of contradictions, yet, highly consistent in his contradictions. He writes every one of them in earnest. A zoologist who observed gorillas in their native habitat was amazed by the uniformity of their life and their vast idleness. Hours and hours without doing anything. Was boredom unknown to them? This is indeed a question raised by a human, a busy ape. Far from fleeing monotony, animals crave it, and what they most dread is to see it end. For it ends, only to be replaced by fear, the cause of all activity. Inaction is divine; yet it is against inaction that man has rebelled. Man alone, in nature, is incapable of enduring monotony, man alone wants something to happen at all costs — something, anything…. Thereby he shows himself unworthy of his ancestor: the need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.
The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep… there is not another animal in the entire creation that wants to sleep yet cannot. The Melbourne International Film Festival decided to not screen the film at its 2020 festival, citing concerns raised by two forensic psychologists that it might "[normalise] sexual interest in children" and be "used as a source of arousal for men interested in child abuse material". [11] The decision to remove the film from the festival line-up was denounced by film critics Peter Krausz, Tom Ryan and David Stratton. [12] Eu mereu am fost adeptul convingerii că opera lui Cioran se particularizează prin subiectivismul extrem. N-am găsit la el -deşi m-am identificat, nu de puţine ori, cu dansul- nici "atâtica" obiectivism. Viziunea lui se substituie relaţiei pe care A AVUT-O cu realitatea, iar aceasta are să determine relaţiile ulterioare care, de asemenea, cuprinse de subiectivism, nu au cum să se întoarcă radical, ci -în cel mai rău caz- să se afunde în propriul abis. Particularitatea asta este ceea ce-l individualizează. N-am citit -e drept!- prea multă filosofie existenţialistă, în schimb, în maniera în care am făcut-o, n-am mai întâlnit în cazul niciunui filosof viziunea subiectivismului pur. Totul pleacă -se înţelege- de la subiectivism. Platon a văzut Republica în contextul epocii sale, Voltaire în cadrul societăţii de factură absolutistă a Franţei s-a gandit: "Io-te! Iluminism!", dar ideile lor se bazau pe un impuls general din partea intelectualităţii societăţii din care făceau parte (şi în cadrul căreia, fără doar şi poate, erau figurile proeminente).
I would need every quote to completely justify the infinite magnitude of brilliance carried throughout the book. The Trouble with Being Born had its world premiere at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival on 25 February 2020, as part of the festival's Encounters section. It was reported that several audience members walked out during the premiere. [9] The film received the Special Jury Award in the Encounters section. [4]Cred că este cea mai monumentală remarcă a volumului, nu fără un dram de ironie în ea (tragicomic): "Nu merită osteneala să te sinucizi, pentru că oricum ar fi prea târziu!" Sırasıyla, Burukluk, Tarih ve Ütopya, Çürümenin Kitabı, ezeli Mağlup, Var Olma Eğilimi, Gözyaşları ve Azizler ve Doğmuş Olmanın Sakıncası Üstüne okuduğum kitaplarıydı. The philosophy of literature is empirically grounded on observation: human beings are the only story-telling animal. Other sentient beings use gestures, sounds, words, phrases, even sentences to communicate with each other. Only people connect words in complex creative ways. This is a blessing and a curse. It makes life inside the language bubble bearable but more or less isolates story-tellers from experience since the stories they tell create their own experience. No one has ever found a way to untangle the two (the attempt is the failed science of epistemology). Having always lived in fear of being surprised by the worst, I have tried in every circumstance to get a head start, flinging myself into misfortune long before it occurred.
This book published as an essay is a surprising collection of relentless thoughts put down by Emil Cioran over life. It is a dark, rainy night: one of those nights. To find something to best suit this atmosphere, I open this book, which I’ve been meaning to read for a while. I lie down in bed, and play the perfect companion for this reading session: Chopin’s Preludes and Nocturnes. Here, I have successfully fetishised melancholia. But to understand and appreciate Cioran, the reader needs to occupy this very atmosphere: an aesthetic fetishism of melancholy. Book Genre: 20th Century, Classics, Cultural, Essays, European Literature, France, Literature, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Psychology, Romania, Romanian Literature, Theory, Writing
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Moseguí, Carlota (2 March 2020). "Review: The Trouble With Being Born". Cineuropa . Retrieved 10 May 2020. Truthfully, Cioran is dour and despairing in much of his writing, which is what you might expect from someone extolling antinatalism, the view that procreation is wrong, based on the serious harm that follows coming into existence (the gist of which is of course expressed by the book title The Trouble With Being Born). But moroseness and poignancy are just one aspect of Cioran’s aphorisms. There is also solace, compassion, wisdom, realism, and soul-baring honesty in his words, as well as a concern for the more mystical and spiritual aspects of life. Like Schopenhauer, Cioran defends the value of living an ascetic sort of life. In conclusion, I will just repeat myself - Cioran does it nonstop in this book so I don't think any reader of his will mind : As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become both impossible and easy.
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