Penguin Books Ltd The trouble with being born | e. m. cioran

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• 'Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all.
• Unfortunately it is within no one's reach.'In The Trouble With Being Born, E.
• M.Cioran 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-winning poet and critic Richard Howard, The Trouble With Being Born is a provocative, illuminating testament to a singular mind.