E. M. Cioran: A Short History of Decay (1949–) [ES, EN, RO, PT]

10 January 2013, dusan

E. M. Cioran confronts the place of today’s world in the context of human history—focusing on such major issues of the twentieth century as human progress, fanaticism, and science—in this nihilistic and witty collection of aphoristic essays concerning the nature of civilization in mid-twentieth-century Europe. Touching upon Man’s need to worship, the feebleness of God, the downfall of the Ancient Greeks and the melancholy baseness of all existence, Cioran’s pieces are pessimistic in the extreme, but also display a beautiful certainty that renders them delicate, vivid, and memorable. Illuminating and brutally honest, A Short History of Decay dissects Man’s decadence in a remarkable series of moving and beautiful pieces.

Originally published in French as Précis de decomposition, Gallimard, 1949

English edition
Translated by Richard Howard
First published by Seaver Books, 1975
Publisher Penguin, 2010 (PDF)
Publisher Arcade Publishing, New York, 2012 (EPUB), with a Foreword by Eugene Thacker
ISBN 161145736X, 9781611457360
181 pages

publisher (EN)
google books (EN)

Breviario de podredumbre (Spanish, trans. Fernando Savater, 1972)
A Short History of Decay (English, trans. Richard Howard, 1975/2010, PDF, added on 2013-9-26)
A Short History of Decay (English, trans. Richard Howard, 1975/2012, EPUB)
Tratat de descompunere (Romanian, trans. Lisandru Neamtu, 1992, updated on 2013-5-31, via sorin)
Breviário da decomposição (Portuguese, trans. José Thomaz Brum, 1995, no OCR)


2 Responses to “E. M. Cioran: A Short History of Decay (1949–) [ES, EN, RO, PT]”

  1. sorin on May 31, 2013 10:19 am
  2. sorin on June 3, 2013 8:42 am

    tanks* Dusan

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