{"product_id":"the-temptation-to-exist-9781611457384","title":"The Temptation to Exist","description":"This 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 novel, mystics, apostles, and philosophers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Temptation to Exist first introduced this brilliant European thinker twenty years ago to American readers, in a superb translation by Richard Howard. This literary mystique around Cioran continues to grow, and \u003ci\u003eThe Temptation to Exist\u003c\/i\u003e has become an underground classic. In this work Cioran writes about Western civilizations, the writer, the novel, about mystics, apostles, philosophers. For those to whom the very word \u003ci\u003ephilosophy\u003c\/i\u003e brings visions of arduous reading, be assured: Cioran is crystal-clear, his style quotable and aphoristic.\u003cbr\u003e\"A sort of final philosopher of the Western world. His statements have the compression of poetry and the audacity of cosmic clowning\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\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 02\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781611457384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 222\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.80d","brand":"E. M. Cioran","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36661978366108,"sku":"9781611457384","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_fb6c1b53-a8dc-4709-a222-95d08a81ea7c.jpg?v=1603900735","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-temptation-to-exist-9781611457384","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}