Kom over dette intervjuet med E.M. Cioran. Her snakker han om sitt liv og forfatterskap. Intervjuet har en del dødpunkter, men også mange godbiter.
Om å fordype tankene:
"Cioran was not a systematic thinker. Rather, his mind advanced with that “patience to go in circles, in other words, to deepen,” as he had described in The New Gods. "
Om Nietzsche (som i likhet med Cioran var prestesønn):
"Well, I realized that he wasn’t a philosopher, he was more: a temperament. (...) His work is an unspeakable megalomania. When one reads the letters he wrote at the same time, one sees that he’s pathetic, it’s very touching, like a character out of Chekhov. "
Cioran har i perioder av livet lidd av søvnløshet, og i likhet med Dickens brukt natten til å spasere i gatene. Hans observasjon om dette sier en del om utviklingen i Paris de senere år:
"What I often liked to do, I should say, was go for walks at night. Curiously enough, I did that in Paris as well, until about ten years ago. Very often, in the middle of the night, if I couldn’t sleep, I’d get up and go walking through Paris for two or three hours. Now it’s become too dangerous to just go out for a walk like that at four in the morning. "
Det som har kommet av Cioran på norsk (Sønderrevet) fant jeg litt trettende og ensidig, men alt tyder på at det er mer å hente.
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