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On the Heights of Despair by E. M. Cioran, Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston

On the Heights of Despair E. M. Cioran, Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston ebook
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226106717, 9780226106717
Format: pdf
Page: 150

You had to laugh and so she did. She said she was happy but gutted. They had been in this position before with family and friends who had died. It should challenge us to new heights of accomplishments, not pull us to new. She hit new heights but dredged the depths of old despair. How could any good come from this? Cioran's On the Heights of Despair (University of Chicago Press, 1996). Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Now imagine the tightrope is actually razor-wire, and gusts of wind challenge every tortuous step into sublime infinity. You can't get much higher in Lincoln Heights than Two Tree Avenue, a narrow lane that cuts across a grassy hill and provides views of the downtown skyline and Dodger Stadium. I can imagine that they were at the very heights of despair. On the Heights of Despair shows Cioran's first grappling with themes he would return to in his mature works: despair and decay, absurdity and alienation, futility and the irrationality of existence.