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Palingenesis
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posted February 01, 2017 09:23 PM |
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Emil Cioran and Mircea Eliade
Since there seem to be quite a lot of Romanians on this board, I'd find it interesting to know how many are familiar with those authors. I've read quite a few books by Eliade whom I consider an excellent historian of religion. It's also interesting that he shares a lot of views with the traditionalist school without directly giving credit to those authors (probably due to political reasons). I'd still like to read his book on Alchemy, but I could only read it in German or English and it's hard to get in those languages.
Cioran, on the other hand, is a writer whom I just discovered a week ago. I started with "On the heights of despair", which is a very moving, anti-natalist stream of consciousness with gnostic overtones. Two other of his books are being shipped to me as we speak.
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Salamandre
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posted February 01, 2017 09:33 PM |
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Is like asking germans if they are familiar with Mann and Goethe. Yet our greatest poet -Mihai Eminescu, is rather unknown abroad, he also lived a very short life. Cioran is the most famous, partially due to him moving to France and getting international honors and proper advertising early, then to his style -mostly short and concise thoughts requiring little concentration thus they can be read anywhere, anytime.
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Baronus
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posted February 01, 2017 10:19 PM |
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Yes Eliade especially great thinker. He evidenced that religion is true.
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Palingenesis
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posted February 01, 2017 11:23 PM |
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By "familiar" I also meant having actually read the books. Of course, Germans know Mann and Goethe, but many haven't read more than some articles about them and some poems by Goethe. I was really impressed by Eliade's books on Shamanism and Yoga. Most of his other books focus on comparative religion, of course, and since I had read some authors of the traditionalist school before, the parallels always stood out to me, especially in his earlier works.
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bloodsucker
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posted February 02, 2017 04:38 PM |
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I'm not sure if you meant only you Romanians but I've read Eliade, several of his books about comparative religion. I've a degree in Sociology so maybe it influences it but my first readings were in highschool.
The other guy I've no idea who he is.
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posted November 02, 2019 08:08 PM |
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I try to kill time, time tries to kill me. We get along well as assassins.
- Emil Cioran
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