Searching for Cioran / Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston ; edited by Kenneth R. Johnston ; foreword by Matei Calinescu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zarifopol-Johnston, Ilinca, 1952-2005.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophers--Romania--Biography.

Philosophers.

Cioran, E. M. (Emile M.), 1911-1995.

Cioran, E. M.

Physical Description:

xxii, 284 p. : ill.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston's critical biography of the Romanian-born French philosopher E. M. Cioran focuses on his crucial formative years as a mystical revolutionary attracted to right-wing nationalist politics in interwar Romania, his writings of this period, and his self-imposed exile to France in 1937. This move led to his transformation into one of the most famous French moralists of the 20th century. As an enthusiast of the anti-rationalist philosophies widely popular in Europe during the first decades of the 20th century, Cioran became an advocate of the fascistic Iron Guard. In her quest to understand how Cioran and other brilliant young intellectuals could have been attracted to such passionate national revival movements, Zarifopol-Johnston, herself a Romanian emigré, sought out the aging philosopher in Paris in the early 1990s and retraced his steps from his home village of Rasinari and youthful years in Sibiu, through his student years in Bucharest and Berlin, to his early residence in France. Her portrait of Cioran is complemented by an engaging autobiographical account of her rediscovery of her own Romanian past.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Editor's Preface

Note on Romanian Spelling and Pronunciation

Foreword by Matei Calinescu

Chronology: E. M. Cioran

Part 1 · The Romanian Life of Emil Cioran

Introduction: Cioran's Revenge

1. Răşinari, Transylvania, 1911-1921

2. Sibiu, 1921-1928

3. Bucharest, 1928-1933

4. Berlin, 1933-1935

5. Romania's Transfiguration, 1935-1937

6. Romania's Transfiguration, Continuing Controversy

7. Tears and Saints, 1937

8. Stranger in Paris

9. Conclusion: The Lyrical Virtues of Totalitarianism

Part 2 · Memoirs of a Publishing Scoundrel

Prelude

Paris, 1992-1994

Romania, 1994

Paris, 1995

Romania, 1995-1997

Postlude

Appendix 1: Another Family

Appendix 2: Articles by Cioran Reflecting His Experiences in Germany

Notes

Bibliography

Biographical Note

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-269) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-39249-2

9786612392498

0-253-00345-8

OCLC:

536278659