The Trouble With Being Born - E.M. Cioran Jacqueline Smit is een bewijs van zijn

is een bewijs van zijn verrassende en unieke charme

he has spent years exiled to a bleak labour camp

ever since

Terwijl ze haar langverwachte tweede roman zou moeten schrijven

The Trouble With Being Born - E.M. Cioran Jacqueline Smit is een bewijs van zijnCioran grapples with the major questions of human existence: birth, death, God, the passing of time, how to relate to others and how to make ourselves get out of bed in the morning. In a series of interlinking aphorisms which are at once pessimistic, poetic and extremely funny, Cioran finds a kind of joy in his own despair, revelling in the absurdity and futility of our existence, and our inability to live in the world. Translated by Pulitzer Prize