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Some of these are collections of brief essays one or two pages, on average ; others are collections of aphorisms. Suffering from insomnia since his adolescent years in Sibiu, the young Cioran studied philosophy in the "little Paris" of Bucharest. After spending two years in Germany, Cioran arrived in Paris in He continued to write in Romanian until the early s he wrote his last article in Romanian in , which is also the year in which he began writing in French.

He then began writing in French a book that, thanks to numerous intensive revisions, would eventually become the impressive A Short History of Decay - the first of a series of ten books in which Cioran would continue to explore his perennial obsessions, with a growing detachment that allies him equally with the Greek sophists, the French moralists, and the oriental sages.

He wrote existential vituperations and other destructive reflections in a classical French style that he felt was diametrically opposed to the looseness of his native Romanian; he described it as being like a "straight-jacket" that required him to control his temperamental excesses and his lyrical flights. Denied the right to return to Romania during the years of the communist regime, and attracting international attention only late in his career, Cioran died in Paris in Emil M.

Paris, Cioran 8 April — 20 June was a Romanian philosopher and essayist. Namespaces Page Discussion. Views Read Edit History. This page was last edited on 1 November , at Privacy policy About Monoskop Disclaimers.