E. M. Cioran: The Conjurer of Beauty. The Murmur of the Body in the Contradiction of Language

E. M. Cioran: The Conjurer of Beauty. The Murmur of the Body in the Contradiction of Language

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This essay deals with the aesthetic ideology, the style, the theory of knowledge, the Meal Replacements conception of the subject and language of the Romanian writer E.M.Cioran.

Leaving aside his widely publicised nihilism and scepticism, this essay focuses on the poetic nature of his aphorisms which is intended to create a place outside of the language contradicting the language itself.A place where concepts become something physical, Wooden Blocks like flesh-and-blood words where thepoet poured everything he knows about the body intending to create a defamiliarization effect.