The Trouble With Being Born (Penguin Modern Classics)

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Burukluk gerçekten Cioran'ın kafasının içerisindeki keskinliği tam olarak anlattığı üst düzey bir kitaptı. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.

Chopin's music is alternately slow and soothing, and fast and maddening. Much the same for Cioran, whose epigrams can range from one-liners that make me question entire ways of thinking, to pointless opinions on things he has read. Somewhere, I get lost in his writing and in Chopin’s music. I encounter familiar ideas of antinatalism, efilism, idealism, pessimism, and all the other isms on which I occasionally construct self-identity. But I also encounter the unfamiliar, the dream, and the partly-familiar three types of thought mentioned above. The Romanian philosopher Emil Cioran (1911 – 1995) was a precocious thinker, reading the likes of Diderot, Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche at the age of 14 (the latter having a major influence on his work). His precociousness was later exemplified by first major philosophical work, On the Heights of Despair, published in 1934, when Cioran was just 22 years old. This work also earned him the Prize of the Royal Academy for young writers, one of two literary awards he accepted (Cioran also accepted the prestigious Rivoral Prize, in 1950; but every other award he was given, he rejected). With a long-standing predilection for philosophical pessimism, owing to Arthur Schopenhauer, when I first came across some of Cioran’s dark, ironic aphorisms, I was an instant fan and was eager to explore some of his work. The Trouble With Being Born is one of his best-known books and, since it was published in his later years, I thought it would be a more mature example of his writing style and philosophy. So it seemed like a good place to start. At the same time, I thought The Trouble With Being Born could be risky reading. Based on the book title alone, I expected Cioran’s thoughts to be so pregnant with dreariness that my day would be ruined after absorbing too many of them. Yet reading The Trouble With Being Born was actually a quite different experience. Without realizing how absurdly self-important it sounds ("Yes, my suffering is so unique that, of all the people that ever existed, undeniably it is I who loathe life the most, who resisted incarnation the most!"), it is frankly embarrassing.Literature has no defense against violence. The bubble is an aberration, as fragile, ephemeral, and temporary as the language upon which it is based. Eu mereu am fost adeptul convingerii că opera lui Cioran se particularizează prin subiectivismul extrem. N-am găsit la el -deşi m-am identificat, nu de puţine ori, cu dansul- nici "atâtica" obiectivism. Viziunea lui se substituie relaţiei pe care A AVUT-O cu realitatea, iar aceasta are să determine relaţiile ulterioare care, de asemenea, cuprinse de subiectivism, nu au cum să se întoarcă radical, ci -în cel mai rău caz- să se afunde în propriul abis. Particularitatea asta este ceea ce-l individualizează. N-am citit -e drept!- prea multă filosofie existenţialistă, în schimb, în maniera în care am făcut-o, n-am mai întâlnit în cazul niciunui filosof viziunea subiectivismului pur. Totul pleacă -se înţelege- de la subiectivism. Platon a văzut Republica în contextul epocii sale, Voltaire în cadrul societăţii de factură absolutistă a Franţei s-a gandit: "Io-te! Iluminism!", dar ideile lor se bazau pe un impuls general din partea intelectualităţii societăţii din care făceau parte (şi în cadrul căreia, fără doar şi poate, erau figurile proeminente).

Archiv - "The Trouble with Being Born" ". Vienna Film Commission (in German). Vienna. 2018 . Retrieved 9 July 2021. Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal – less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him. Literature is an evolved form of language. It is constituted by an ideal philosophy, and ideal religion, and an ideal politics. Or at least as ideal as can be reached by Homo sapiens.Millionen Euro für 21 neue ORF-Kinofilmprojekte". ORF.at (in German). Vienna. 3 May 2018 . Retrieved 9 July 2021. As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become both impossible and easy. In a series of interlinking aphorisms which are at once pessimistic, poetic and extremely funny, Cioran finds a kind of joy in his own despair, revelling in the absurdity and futility of our existence, and our inability to live in the world. Hay ferocidad en todos los estados de ánimo, salvo en el de la alegría. La palabra ‘Schadenfreude’, alegría maligna, es un contrasentido. Hacer el mal constituye un placer, no una alegría. La alegría, única victoria sobre el mundo, es pura en su esencia; es, por tanto, irreductible al placer, sospechoso siempre, en sí mismo y en sus manifestaciones.