Emile

On the heights of despair van E.M. Cioran

Born of a terrible insomnia--"a dizzying lucidity which would turn even
paradise into hell"--this book presents the youthful Cioran, a self-
described "Nietzsche still complete with his Zarathustra, his poses, his
mystical clown's tricks, a whole circus of the heights."

Kerel was maar 22, wist al dat het leven geen zin had en is uiteindelijk 85 of zo geworden, bij wijze van grap.

A Romanian writer who spent most his life in Paris writing 'a philosophical romance on modern themes of alienation, absurdity, boredom, futility, decay, the tyranny of history, the vulgarities of change, awareness as agony, reason as disease.'

A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.

Wel dom dat zo iemand ook doodgaat.