Emil Cioran

Emil Cioran was born on 8 April 1911 in Rășinari, near Sibiu, where he did his secondary studies. He studied literature and philosophy in Bucharest from 1928 to 1931, then was a scholarship student in Berlin from 1933. In the thirties he supported the ideology of the Legionary movement, which he later described as the worst folly of his youth. Having left for Paris in 1937 thanks to a scholarship, he settled there, wrote only in French from then on and died in Paris on 20 June 1995.

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• EssayOn the Heights of DespairPe culmile disperăriiEmil Cioran · 1934Literature