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The Trouble with Being Born

Paperback • 2020 • English

The Trouble with Being Born

By Emile M. Cioran

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About the book

'Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately it is within no one's reach.' In The Trouble With Being Born, E. M. Cioran 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 fut...Show more

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ISBN

9780241467275

Publisher

Penguin Books

Published year

2020

Language

English

Original title

The Trouble with Being Born

Format

Paperback

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