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The Trouble With Being Born by E. M. Cioran
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.60'Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately it is within no one's reach.'In The Trouble With Being Born, E. M. Cioran grapples with the major questions of human existence:... -
Drawn and Quartered by E M Cioran 9781611456967
Booksplease Price: £13.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611456967Author E M CioranFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint -
The Temptation to Exist by E. M. Cioran 9781611457384
Booksplease Price: £13.57This collection of eleven essays originally appeared in France thirty years ago and created a literary whirlwind on the Left Bank. Cioran writes incisively about Western civilizations, the writer,... -
The Trouble with Being Born by E M Cioran
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611457407Author E M CioranFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint -
A Short History of Decay by E. M. Cioran 9781611457360
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £12.81E. 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... -
E. M. Cioran and the Human Condition Dr Karl White 9781350498549
Booksplease Price: £85.65This masterful account situates E.M. Cioran in his rightful place as one of the key figures in French post-war thought.Acknowledged for decades as a pillar of European culture, the Romanian emigre... -
A Short History of Decay by E.M. Cioran
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A Short History of Decay (1949) is E. M. Cioran's nihilistic and witty collection of aphoristic essays concerning the nature of civilization in mid 20th-century Europe. Touching upon man's need to... -
Alice in Sussex: Mahler after Lewis Carroll & H. C. Artmann Nicolas Mahler 9780857429926
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.36A twist on the classic tale of Alice in Wonderland told through Nicolas Mahler's distinctive graphic novel style. Alice is back in Wonderland. Here she meets the White Rabbit, who leads her down... -
Reflections On Exile: And Other Literary And Cultural Essays by Edward W. Said
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.30With their powerful blend of political and aesthetic concerns, Edward W. Said's writings have transformed the field of literary studies. As in the title essay, the widely admired "Reflections on... -
Susan Sontag: Essays of the 1960s & 70s (Loa #246): Against Interpretation / Styles of Radical Will / On Photography / Illness as Metaphor / Uncollected Essays by Susan Sontag 9781598532555
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £27.59With the publication of her first book of criticism, Against Interpretation, in 1966, Susan Sontag placed herself at the forefront of an era of cultural and political transformation. "What is... -
Essayism by Brian Dillon
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Imagine a type of writing so hard to define its very name means a trial, effort or attempt. An ancient form with an eye on the future, a genre poised between tradition and experiment. The essay wants... -
In Praise of Failure: Four Lessons in Humility Costica Bradatan 9780674297203
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £12.13A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Charming and brilliant." -Times Literary Supplement "Provocative, stimulating, wise the book that our success-obsessed age needs to read." Tom Holland...