William Gass - Review of Cioran’s The Temptation to Exist [‘The Evil Demiurge’] (1968)

Don’t shoot the messenger, Cioranists.
Review of Emil Cioran’s The Temptation to Exist, trans. Richard Howard (1968), published in The New York Review (22 August 1968). Cioran’s text originally published as La Tentation d'exister (1956).
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