The Trouble With Being Born (Penguin Modern Classics)

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Prestridge, James (19 February 2020). "Berlinale 2020: Director Sandra Wollner Talks 'The Trouble With Being Born' ". Close-Up Culture . Retrieved 15 May 2020. Quinn, Karl (18 August 2020). "Film critics slam festival for dumping controversial Austrian robosex movie". The Age . Retrieved 18 August 2020. The Trouble with Being Born had its world premiere at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival on 25 February 2020, as part of the festival's Encounters section. It was reported that several audience members walked out during the premiere. [9] The film received the Special Jury Award in the Encounters section. [4] What I'm trying to say is I finished this book more disappointed in myself and the sadness I found in reading this book is that my life is so soul crushingly uncomfortable I can't even read a sad book and feel sad without feeling like I'm wasting time and that I should be working. With a long-standing predilection for philosophical pessimism, owing to Arthur Schopenhauer, when I first came across some of Cioran’s dark, ironic aphorisms, I was an instant fan and was eager to explore some of his work. The Trouble With Being Born is one of his best-known books and, since it was published in his later years, I thought it would be a more mature example of his writing style and philosophy. So it seemed like a good place to start. At the same time, I thought The Trouble With Being Born could be risky reading. Based on the book title alone, I expected Cioran’s thoughts to be so pregnant with dreariness that my day would be ruined after absorbing too many of them. Yet reading The Trouble With Being Born was actually a quite different experience.

To compensate for the consequences of entrapment inside the bubble human beings have invented a religion of language (and a language of religion) that tells the story (actually many stories) of what exists outside the bubble. This of course is paradoxical since that which is beyond the bubble is reality, which as soon as it is brought inside the bubble becomes literature. Prompted by this contradiction, some people declare their language about things outside the bubble to be sacred, thus making life inside the bubble toxic. These people are idolatrous and call those who are not idolaters: atheists, agnostics, non-conformists, dreamers, and sometimes artists, by which they mean useless. As arts are going deeper into an impasse, artists multiply. This abnormality isn't one if one thinks that art, on the decline, has become impossible and easy at the same time. a b c Romney, Jonathan (16 March 2020). " 'The Trouble With Being Born': Berlin Review". Screen Daily . Retrieved 10 May 2020. I was walking late one night along a tree-lined path; a chestnut fell at my feet. The noise it made as it burst, the resonance it provoked in me, and an upheaval out of all proportion to this insignificant event thrust me into miracle, into the rapture of the definitive, as if there were no more questions—only answers. I was drunk on a thousand unexpected discoveries, none of which I could make use of. … Orice mizantrop, oricât de sincer ar fi, ne aminteşte uneori de acel bătrân poet ţintuit la pat şi uitat de toată lumea, care, pornit împotriva contemporanilor săi, decretase că nu mai vrea să primească pe nimeni. De milă, nevasta lui se ducea să sune din când în când la uşa."As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become both impossible and easy. In a series of interlinking aphorisms which are at once pessimistic, poetic and extremely funny, Cioran finds a kind of joy in his own despair, revelling in the absurdity and futility of our existence, and our inability to live in the world.

Ce-ai păţit, dar spune, ce-ai păţit? - Nimic, nimic, am făcut doar o săritură în afară soartei mele şi nu mai ştiu acum încotro să mă îndrept, spre ce să alerg..." I feel entitled to interpret and respond to Cioran’s aphoristic mode with some of the same chiastic development (even if not nearly as witty):Vourlias, Christopher (26 February 2020). "Sandra Wollner on Berlin A.I. Drama 'The Trouble With Being Born' ". Variety . Retrieved 10 May 2020.

The Trouble with Being Born (French: De l'inconvénient d'être né) is a 1973 philosophy book by Romanian author Emil Cioran. The book is presented as a series of aphorisms, meditating primarily on the painful nature of being alive, and how this is connected to other subjects, such as God, metaphysical exile, and decay. [1] In 2020, The Trouble with Being Born became a Penguin Modern Classic. [2] When every man has realized that his birth is a defeat, existence, endurable at last, will seem like the day after a surrender, like the relief and the repose of the conquered." To walk along a stream, to pass, to flow with the water, without effort, without haste, while death continues in us its ruminations, its uninterrupted soliloquy…" Eu mereu am fost adeptul convingerii că opera lui Cioran se particularizează prin subiectivismul extrem. N-am găsit la el -deşi m-am identificat, nu de puţine ori, cu dansul- nici "atâtica" obiectivism. Viziunea lui se substituie relaţiei pe care A AVUT-O cu realitatea, iar aceasta are să determine relaţiile ulterioare care, de asemenea, cuprinse de subiectivism, nu au cum să se întoarcă radical, ci -în cel mai rău caz- să se afunde în propriul abis. Particularitatea asta este ceea ce-l individualizează. N-am citit -e drept!- prea multă filosofie existenţialistă, în schimb, în maniera în care am făcut-o, n-am mai întâlnit în cazul niciunui filosof viziunea subiectivismului pur. Totul pleacă -se înţelege- de la subiectivism. Platon a văzut Republica în contextul epocii sale, Voltaire în cadrul societăţii de factură absolutistă a Franţei s-a gandit: "Io-te! Iluminism!", dar ideile lor se bazau pe un impuls general din partea intelectualităţii societăţii din care făceau parte (şi în cadrul căreia, fără doar şi poate, erau figurile proeminente). The whole of the French sans-cullotes and bourgeois revolutionaries apologizes, dear Mr. Cioran, that people were excited for literally the biggest event in human history, which was the beginning of the age of revolution in Europe, which swept away centuries of feudal bondage, that some theatricality was had! Not genuine enough for you as the idle, frivolous chatter of upper-class gentlemen is, eh?"

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Millionen Euro für 21 neue ORF-Kinofilmprojekte". ORF.at (in German). Vienna. 3 May 2018 . Retrieved 9 July 2021. The philosophy of literature is empirically grounded on observation: human beings are the only story-telling animal. Other sentient beings use gestures, sounds, words, phrases, even sentences to communicate with each other. Only people connect words in complex creative ways. This is a blessing and a curse. It makes life inside the language bubble bearable but more or less isolates story-tellers from experience since the stories they tell create their own experience. No one has ever found a way to untangle the two (the attempt is the failed science of epistemology). Literature is an evolved form of language. It is constituted by an ideal philosophy, and ideal religion, and an ideal politics. Or at least as ideal as can be reached by Homo sapiens. I think human consciousness was a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self aware. Nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself. We are creatures that should not exist, by natural law.'

Como todos los libros de Emil son exorcismos nocturnos, uno va desarrollando cierto olfato/goce para descifrar sus humores: cuando es irónico, cuando exagera, cuando escribe sabiendo que ni él mismo se toma demasiado en serio, etc. Me han llamado mucho la atención estos dos fragmentos, que en la lectura se me presentaron como paradójicos y conmovedores:

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