On Suffering Author: [France] EM Cioran Publisher: Guangxi Normal University Press

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【Editor's recommendation】

⭐Dangerous philosopher Cioran, the first collection of short sentences in life! The best-selling and most popular work in France

"Being friends with Cioran is dangerous, but it's the kind of danger that keeps you alive."

The dangerous philosopher Cioran writes with "fragmented" ideas and declares a fierce war on traditional philosophy!

Three years after Outlines of Disintegration, Suffering was published in 1952, shocking the French cultural world again;

The resolute and rebellious attitude made this work a bestseller and a big hit in France.

It is also the work that Cioran considers to be closest to himself.

⭐ Blasphemous prayers · Bitter sweetness · A pillow book from the abyss

The atrophy of language, the dizziness of history, the source of emptiness, the vitality of love...

Ten chapters, ten pulses, all-encompassing;

There are only fragments, refusing to form a system, further disintegrating;

On language, loneliness, religion, history, and music—

Only in Cioran's fragments can the refined short sentences have such profound charm.

⭐Designed by the famous designer Yamakawa, a rare hardcover paperback edition!

Designed by the famous designer Yamakawa, this is a rare hardcover book, which can be read at will or collected and displayed;

Creative interior design, visually displaying Cioran’s fragmented thoughts;

A double book in light blue and cowpea red, with consistent color scheme for cover, bookmark and book cover cloth, and the inner text is made of non-yellowing offset paper.

【Content Introduction】

This is EM Cioran's second French work after his famous work "A Brief History of Disintegration".

It is also the work he claimed to be "the most widely circulated and closest to himself" in France. With its fragmented writing style, it established the "Ciolan style".

Subtle, concise and powerful, "On Suffering" embraces fragments -

No thinker has revealed himself so radically.

The book is divided into ten chapters - language, loneliness, religion, history and music are haunting themes.

There was a kind of manic humor in these howls of pain; there were traces of tears in his laughter.

【Celebrity Recommendation】

Cioran, in your ruins I found refuge.

—Samuel Beckett (playwright)

Cioran is one of the most powerful writers and most sophisticated thinkers alive today.

——Susan Sontag (thinker)

The greatest French writer since the death of Paul Valery, who has done honour to our language.

——Saint-John Perse (Nobel Prize winner in Literature)

Infusing a near-death act with a sense of false innocence with zany comedy… and heightening its seriousness with a genuine pun.

——The New York Times Book Review