{"product_id":"all-gall-is-divided-the-aphorisms-of-a-legendary-iconoclast-9781948924238","title":"All Gall Is Divided: The Aphorisms of a Legendary Iconoclast","description":"\u003cb\u003eNow in paperback, an \"antidote to a world gone mad for bedside affirmation\" (\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eM. Cioran has been called the last worthy disciple of Nietzsche and \"a sort of final philosopher of the Western world\" who \"combines the compassion of poetry and the audacity of cosmic clowning\" (\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003ci\u003eAll Gall Is Divided\u003c\/i\u003e is the second book Cioran published in French after moving from his native Romania and establishing himself in Paris. It revealed him as an aphorist in a long tradition descending from the ancient Greeks through La Rochefoucault but with a gift for lacerating, subversively off-kilter insights, a twentieth-century nose for the absurdities of the human condition, and what Baudelaire called \"spleen.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe aphorisms collected here address themes from the atrophy of utterance and the condition of the West to the abyss, solitude, time, religion, music, the vitality of love, music, history, and the void. The award-winning poet and translator Richard Howard has characterized them as \"manic humor, howls of pain, and a vestige of tears,\" but, as he notes too, in these expressions of the philosopher's existential estrangement, there glows \"a certain sweetness for all of what Cioran calls 'amertume.'\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Arcade Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/02\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781948924238\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.60d","brand":"E. M. Cioran","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36672737542300,"sku":"9781948924238","price":15.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_2e0df9e5-23c0-4335-8b52-8d45ff764bed.jpg?v=1603928275","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/all-gall-is-divided-the-aphorisms-of-a-legendary-iconoclast-9781948924238","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}