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by Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston; Kenneth R. Johnston (Editor); Foreword by Matei Calinescu


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Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston's critical biography of the Romanian-born French philosopher E. M. Cioran focuses on his crucial formative years as a mystical revolutionary attracted to right-wing nationalist politics in interwar Romania, his writings of this period, and his self-imposed exile to France in 1937. This move led to his transformation into one of the most famous French moralists of the 20th century. As an enthusiast of the anti-rationalist philosophies widely popular in Europe during the first decades of the 20th century, Cioran became an advocate of the fascistic Iron Guard. In her quest to understand how Cioran and other brilliant young intellectuals could have been attracted to such passionate national revival movements, Zarifopol-Johnston, herself a Romanian emigr, sought out the aging philosopher in Paris in the early 1990s and retraced his steps from his home village of Rasinari and youthful years in Sibiu, through his student years in Bucharest and Berlin, to his early residence in France. Her portrait of Cioran is complemented by an engaging autobiographical account of her rediscovery of her own Romanian past.

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  • Title Searching for Cioran
  • Author Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston; Kenneth R. Johnston (Editor); Foreword by Matei Calinescu
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 312
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN
  • Date 2009-01-07
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780253352675 / 0253352673
  • Weight 1.45 lbs (0.66 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.55 x 6.46 x 1 in (24.26 x 16.41 x 2.54 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Eastern Europe
  • Library of Congress subjects Cioran, E. M, Philosophers - Romania
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008023842
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Citations

  • Chronicle of Higher Education, 01/30/2009, Page 20
  • New York Review of Books, 11/11/2010, Page 30
  • Reference and Research Bk News, 05/01/2009, Page 5

About the author

Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston (1952-2005) was Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Indiana University, Bloomington. She translated two books by E. M. Cioran from Romanian, On the Heights of Despair and Tears and Saints, and is author of To Kill a Text: The Dialogic Fiction of Hugo, Dickens and Zola.

Kenneth R. Johnston is Professor of English Emeritus at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is author of The Hidden Wordsworth: Poet, Lover, Rebel, Spy and co-editor of Romantic Revolutions: Criticism and Theory (IUP, 1990). He lives in Chicago, Illinois.

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