The Trouble With Being Born - E.M. Cioran Gerard Kessels

The Trouble With Being Born - E.M. Cioran Gerard KesselsCioran grapples with the major questions of human existence: birth, death, God, the passing of time, how to relate to others and how to make ourselves get out of bed in the morning. In a series of interlinking aphorisms which are at once pessimistic, poetic and extremely funny, Cioran finds a kind of joy in his own despair, revelling in the absurdity and futility of our existence, and our inability to live in the world. Translated by Pulitzer Prize

Exploring the visceral reality of life in the American South as well as Baldwin’s impressions of London

An experimental novella

Van dat achtluik is dit een vierluik

Jaar van uitgave: 1967

Her observations and experiences expose the bourgeois society of the south as rootless and shallow and in stark contrast to the age-old culture of the solid and less fanciful north

The Age of Reason follows two days in the life of Mathieu Delarue

desperately trying to avoid his fate

Dat hebben we niet helemaal zelf in de hand: aandacht en informatie zijn de munteenheden van een nieuw tijdperk

wordt hij al snel meegezogen in een web van oude spanningen en nieuwe onthullingen

onconventionele biografie van dokter Samuel Jean Pozzi (1846-1918)

die bestaan nog steeds

younger self crowd in – along with more recent lovers and friends – to disrupt his self-imposed exile