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# A Short History of Decay

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Cioran’s masterpiece
  

*by Z***H on Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2023*

I own most of the Arcade paperback editions of Cioran’s French works, and they are quite good. The introductions by Eugene Thacker are brief and useful. Richard Howard’s translations are masterful.Précis de décomposition is (I think) Cioran’s best book, and is certainly the one that put him on the map. Howard’s prize-winning translation is exemplary, especially his wonderfully mordant rendering of the title—A Short History of Decay. It does exactly what it says on the tin, as the saying goes. (Howard also has an impressive translation of Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du mal.)Whether you do or do not subscribe to Cioran’s extreme (but not humorless) form of pessimism doesn’t matter so much: it’s simply a great work of literature that should be read. Cioran was one of the twentieth century’s great, if lesser known, prose stylists. Every sentence is quotable.And the same goes for the whole corpus of Cioran’s French works, all of which I would recommend. For Cioran’s writings originally published in Romanian, look for the University of Chicago Press editions translated by Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston. Unfortunately, she was able to complete only two translations before her untimely death: Cioran’s first book, On the Heights of Despair, and his take on mysticism, Tears and Saints. These are less mature but no less important than his later works. Zarifopol-Johnston also has an excellent memoir, Searching for Cioran.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    The best book.
  

*by N***N on Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2024*

I’ve never read something so hilarious and terrible, glorious and tragic, fantastic and devastating, besides Shakespeare. I LOVE IT!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Love hate
  

*by J***D on Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2024*

Personally I think Cioran is at his funniest in the short aphorism form (eg All Gall is Divided).Here we have page length aphorisms, a la Nietzsche but written as if by some amalgam of a symbolist poet and post-structuralist.  The result is somewhat dense, semi-lucid but highly creative and evocative musings on such topics as abstraction, meaning, death, etc.I can see why it’s considered his main work.  It’s certainly more work to read!  However it’s less enjoyable than the shorter form works.  My mind wanders more reading this, where Cioran’s flights of verbal fancy leave me occasionally sighing and then alert.Edit:  After making it someway through the book, my opinion of it is elevated for sure.  Highly cynical, but does what the best writing is capable of: alters your perspective and gives a new way of looking at things.  There are some fabulous sentences here that are truly otherworldly on their beauty as well.

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