num_pages: 212
description: In this volume, which reaffirms the uncompromising brilliance of his mind, Cioran strips the human condition down to its most basic components, birth and death, suggesting that disaster lies not in the prospect of death but in the fact of birth, "that laughable accident." In the lucid, aphoristic style that characterizes his work, Cioran writes of time and death, God and religion, suicide and suffering, and the temptation to silence. In all his writing, Cioran cuts to the heart of the human experience.
language: English
title: The Trouble with Being Born
titlecomplete: The Trouble with Being Born
genres: Theory, France, Romania, Philosophy, Psychology, Nonfiction, Essays, Classics, 20th Century, Romanian Literature
ratings_count: 8071
publisher: Quartet Books