Cioran

Emil Cioran (April 8, 1911 – June 20, 1995) was a Romanian philosopher and essayist.

Major works

Romanian

* Pe culmile disperării (literally On the Summits of Despair; translated "On the Heights of Despair"), Editura "Fundaţia pentru Literatură şi Artă", Bucharest 1934 * Cartea amăgirilor ("The Book of Delusions”), Bucharest 1936 * Schimbarea la faţă a României ("The Transfiguration of Romania”), Bucharest 1936 * Lacrimi şi Sfinţi ("Tears and Saints"), "Editura autorului" 1937 * Îndreptar pătimaş ("The Passionate Handbook”) , Humanitas, Bucharest 1991

French

* Mon pays/Ţara mea ("My country”, written in French, the book was first published in Romania in a bilingual volume), Humanitas, Bucharest, 1996 * Précis de décomposition ("A Short History of Decay"), Gallimard 1949 * Syllogismes de l'amertume (tr. "All Gall Is Divided"), Gallimard 1952 * La tentation d'exister ("The Temptation to Exist"), Gallimard 1956 English edition: ISBN 0-226-10675-6 * Histoire et utopie ("History and Utopia"), Gallimard 1960 * La chute dans le temps ("The Fall into Time"), Gallimard 1964 * Le mauvais démiurge (literally The Poor Demiurge; tr. "The New Gods"), Gallimard 1969 * De l'inconvénient d'être né ("The Trouble With Being Born"), Gallimard 1973 * Écartelèment (tr. "Drawn and Quartered"), Gallimard 1979 * Exercices d'admiration 1986, and Aveux et anathèmes 1987 (tr. and grouped as "Anathemas and Admirations") * Cahiers ("Notebooks"), Gallimard 1997 (English translation published April 3, 2006, only to be released in 2007)