Temptation to Exist
By (author): "Richard Howard"
Publish Date:
1956
ISBN0812961242
ISBN139780812961249
AsinTemptation to Exist
Original titleLa Tentation d'exister
This collection of eleven essays originally appeared in France thirty years ago and created a literary whirlwind on the Left Bank. E.M. Cioran writes incisively about Western civilizations, the writer, the novel, mystics, apostles, and philosophers. "An intellectual bombshell that blasts away at all kinds of cant, sham and conventionality. . . ". --Jonah Raskin, L.A.