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jacoboner's review against another edition
4.0
Felsefik bir söz seremonisinin en üst düzeyinden doğaçlama sancısı.
Okuyucuya karşı acımasız, pervazsız.
Gerçekliğin acı duruşu ve istemdışı kabullenişin kaçınılmazlığı.
Okuyucuya karşı acımasız, pervazsız.
Gerçekliğin acı duruşu ve istemdışı kabullenişin kaçınılmazlığı.
dragonsandfoxes's review against another edition
3.0
Avrupa diye bir yer olmasaydı bile bu kitap bana Avrupa kültürünü hatırlatırdı.
snapier's review against another edition
5.0
Let me preface this review with a disclaimer - if you're in a fragile place mentally, do not read this book. On the other hand, if you're in a fragile place mentally, do read this book. For those who feel as if they exist in solitary melancholia, Cioran's poetic aphorisms describing the experience of beautifully tragic sadness reveal that you are truly not alone - we all happen to suffer individually together.
Cioran has rapidly become my favourite philosopher. At times humourous, at times utterly depressing many breaks were required to get through this book. For once this is not a negative thing, the breaks only necessary to cope with the realisation that Cioran had made me truly feel both the depths of sadness and the heights of despair - along with existentialist realisations of the absurdity of it all.
In Cioran's words "to keep the mind vigilant, there is only coffee, disease, insomnia, or the obsession of death". If you have even 2 of these things, you are well on your way to comprehending the sense of ennui Cioran embodies in his work. The others may come in time, after all "life is what decomposes at every moment". Fill some of those moments with Cioran, and never feel alone again.
Cioran has rapidly become my favourite philosopher. At times humourous, at times utterly depressing many breaks were required to get through this book. For once this is not a negative thing, the breaks only necessary to cope with the realisation that Cioran had made me truly feel both the depths of sadness and the heights of despair - along with existentialist realisations of the absurdity of it all.
In Cioran's words "to keep the mind vigilant, there is only coffee, disease, insomnia, or the obsession of death". If you have even 2 of these things, you are well on your way to comprehending the sense of ennui Cioran embodies in his work. The others may come in time, after all "life is what decomposes at every moment". Fill some of those moments with Cioran, and never feel alone again.
cizzm's review
challenging
dark
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.0
Pessimism and nihilism at it‘s finest
dannymason_1's review
3.0
Probably isn't a good sign that I agreed with a lot more of this book than I did the first time I read it. I really appreciate Cioran's unrelenting nihilism and his refusal to pull any punches whatsoever, but I still find this book to be a bit overwritten in a way that takes away from the ideas.
bociti's review against another edition
dark
reflective
fast-paced
4.0
it's just philosophy, which I don't read very often but still it was a good book. Woah complex
Content Warnings
Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and War
motifenjoyer's review
dark
reflective
4.0
"Those who speak have no secrets. And we all speak. We betray ourselves, we exhibit our heart; executioner of the unspeakable, each of us labors to destroy all the mysteries, beginning with our own."