Zobaczyć sens w „katastrofie narodzin” Emila Ciorana
“To See the Sense” in Emil Cioran’s “Catastrophy of Birth”

Author(s): Katarzyna Rybińska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, History of Art
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: In his artistic activity, Emil Cioran gradually deprives human life of tolerance. He perceivesthe fact of human existence as a scandalizing insult, an unfair joke, a tragic mistake of fate,incommesurate with the existence before the catastrophic moment of birth. The Romanian phi-losopher impairs the dense groundwork of being with his questions about the sense and purposeof existence. He weaves the texture of life with ever-multiplying question marks, which unex-pectedly peter away each time one tries to formulate any rational answer. His questioning ofthe sense of being a human perfectly correlates with the deliberations of such writers as: AnaїsNin, Virginia Woolf, Jean-Paul Sartre, Friedrich Nietzsche and Sándor Marái. Their ontologi-cal reflections, being ideologically proximate to Cioran’s own philosophy, create an extremelydelicate system of reference that allows one to comprehend the incidental nature of the earthlyroam of the embodied souls.

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