{"product_id":"all-gall-is-divided-the-aphorisms-of-a-legendary-iconoclast-9781948924238","title":"All Gall Is Divided: The Aphorisms of a Legendary Iconoclast","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"An antidote to a world gone mad for bedside affirmation\"--\u003ci\u003eWashington Post.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eE. M. Cioran has been called the last worthy disciple of Nietzsche and \"a sort of final philosopher of the Western world\" who \"combines the compassion of poetry and the audacity of cosmic clowning\" (\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAll Gall Is Divided\u003c\/i\u003e is the second book Cioran published in French after moving from his native Romania and establishing himself in Paris. It revealed him as an aphorist in a long tradition descending from the ancient Greeks through La Rochefoucault but with a gift for lacerating, subversively off-kilter insights, a twentieth-century nose for the absurdities of the human condition, and what Baudelaire called \"spleen.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe aphorisms collected here address themes from the atrophy of utterance and the condition of the West to the abyss, solitude, time, religion, music, the vitality of love, history, and the void. The award-winning poet and translator Richard Howard has characterized them as \"manic humor, howls of pain, and a vestige of tears,\" but, as he notes too, in these expressions of the philosopher's existential estrangement, there glows \"a certain sweetness for all of what Cioran calls 'amertume.'\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eE. M. Cioran\u003c\/b\u003e was the son of an Orthodox priest. In the late 1930s, he left his native Romania for Paris, where he lived and wrote until his death in 1995. His many books include \u003ci\u003eA Short History of Decay\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDrawn and Quartered\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Temptation to Exist\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Trouble with Being Born\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHistory and Utopia\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAnathemas and Admirations\u003c\/i\u003e, all in translations by Richard Howard and published by Arcade. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Howard\u003c\/b\u003e is the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, award-winning translator, essayist, teacher, and literary critic. He won the PEN Translation Prize for his translation of \u003ci\u003eA Short History of Decay\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in New York City. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eEugene Thacker\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eInfinite Resignation\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIn The Dust of This Planet\u003c\/i\u003e. He teaches at the New School in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Arcade Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50641745248530,"sku":"9781948924238","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_054c1aca-aef7-46f0-914e-1ef1db4eba5d.jpg?v=1733033604","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/all-gall-is-divided-the-aphorisms-of-a-legendary-iconoclast-9781948924238","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}