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Bezig met laden... Tears and Saints (origineel 1986; editie 1998)door E. M. Cioran (Auteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. "Prolonged interest in saintliness is an illness which requires a few years’ convalescence. Then, you are seized by a desire to pick up your sadness and roam under another sky, to grow strong elsewhere. The need for space is a counter-reaction to the infinity of saintliness. You feel like lying in the grass and looking up at the sky, free from the prejudice of its heights." A collection of aphorisms more than anything, a few of which--the above, particularly--set off fireworks in my head and actually completely changed my brain. Too personal to review properly; a very important book for me. Cioran not only discerns and explodes the "unwritten history" of women -- most of the saints he mentions are women -- they come to grips with their Will to Power, voluptuous with Tears, suffering at their own hands, under the tyranny of saving grace. An Appendix of the Saints mentioned is provided. This is not a "Lives of the Saints", I was pleasantly surprised to find. Translator is superb. The Saints are listed/ biographies in an Appendix, including: St Agnes, St Aldegund, Blessed Da Foligno, St Bridget, Catherine Emmerich, St Catherine of Genoa, St Catherine of Medici, St Catherine of Sienna, Rumi, Diwan, Eckhart, St Francis, St Francis de Sales, St Ignatius, St John, St Martha, St Mary, St Peter, St Teresa, St Rose of Lima, Plotinus, Amandus, mysticism, St Therese of Lisieux, Aquinas. Note the gay Dervish, Rumi. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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By the mid-1930s, Emil Cioran was already known as a leader of a new generation of politically committed Romanian intellectuals. Researching another, more radical book, Cioran was spending hours in a library poring over the lives of saints. As a modern hagiographer, Cioran "dreamt" himself "the chronicler of these saints' falls between heaven and earth, the intimate knower of the ardors in their hearts, the historian of God's insomniacs." Inspired by Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil, Cioran "searched for the origin of tears." He asked himself if saints could be "the sources of tears' better light." "Who can tell?" he wrote in the first paragraph of this book, first published in Romania in 1937. "To be sure, tears are their trace. Tears did not enter the world through the saints; but without them we would never have known that we cry because we long for a lost paradise." By following in their traces, "wetting the soles of one's feet in their tears," Cioran hoped to understand how a human being can renounce being human. Written in Cioran's characteristic aphoristic style, this flamboyant, bold, and provocative book is one of his most important--and revelatory--works. Cioran focuses not on martyrs or heroes but on the mystics--primarily female--famous for their keening spirituality and intimate knowledge of God. Their Christianity was anti-theological, anti-institutional, and based solely on intuition and sentiment. Many, such as Catherine of Siena, Teresa of Avila, and Saint John of the Cross, have produced classic works of mystical literature; but Cioran celebrates many more minor and unusual figures as well. Following Nietzsche, he focuses explicitly on the political element hidden in saints' lives. In his hands, however, their charitable deeds are much less interesting than their thirst for pain and their equally powerful capacity to endure it. Behind their suffering and their uncanny ability to renounce everything through ascetic practices, Cioran detects a fanatical will to power. "Like Nietzsche, Cioran is an important religious thinker. His book intertwines God and music with passion and tears. . . . [Tears and Saints] has a chillingly contemporary ring that makes this translation important here and now."--Booklist Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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