RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Maftei, Mara Magda
T1 An unknown Cioran
JF Romanica Olomucensia
YR 2017
VO 29
IS 1
SP 87
OP 106
DO 10.5507/ro.2017.007
UL https://romanica.upol.cz/artkey/rom-201701-0007.php
AB It is said that youth marks us for ever, that the past is never forgotten. What about when it comes to a controversial writer with a double culture, French-Romanian, and born in a turbulent historical context? This paper emphasizes some original matters concerning the writer Emil Cioran. It presents the interwar Romanian political and intellectual context, Cioran's friends, who were then separated by the Iron Curtain, the reception of his Romanian and French books by his generation, the comments of the philosopher on his own writings, and the context that contributed to the birth of his philosophical thought.