Emil Cioran

GPTKB entity

Statements (113)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instance_of gptkb:philosopher
gptkb:essayist
gptkbp:alma_mater gptkb:University_of_Bucharest
gptkbp:associated_with gptkb:University_of_Bucharest
gptkb:University_of_Paris
gptkb:École_Normale_Supérieure
gptkbp:awards gptkb:Austrian_State_Prize_for_European_Literature
gptkb:The_Romanian_Academy_Award
gptkbp:birth_date 1911-04-08
gptkbp:born_in gptkb:Rășinari,_Romania
gptkbp:death_date 1995-06-20
gptkbp:death_place gptkb:Paris,_France
gptkbp:ethnicity gptkb:Romanian
gptkbp:famous_quote " We are all born mad. Some remain so."
" To be human is to be in a state of perpetual discontent."
" It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late."
" The only thing that matters is to be able to say: I have lived."
" I have no need of religion, I have a need of the absurd."
gptkbp:field gptkb:literature
gptkb:philosophy
metaphysics
aesthetics
theory of knowledge
gptkbp:has_part gptkb:literary_criticism
philosophical essays
philosophical reflections
memoirs
aphorisms
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Emil Cioran
gptkbp:influence Existentialism
Nihilism
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Michael_Ondaatje
gptkb:Colson_Whitehead
gptkb:J._D._Salinger
gptkb:David_Foster_Wallace
gptkb:David_Mitchell
gptkb:Philip_Roth
gptkb:Ray_Bradbury
gptkb:Dame_Margaret_Atwood
gptkb:George_Saunders
gptkb:Hannah_Arendt
gptkb:Andrei_Codrescu
gptkb:Emil_Michel_Cioran
gptkb:Alice_Munro
gptkb:Cormac_Mc_Carthy
gptkb:Don_De_Lillo
gptkb:Ian_Mc_Ewan
gptkb:Kurt_Vonnegut
gptkb:Toni_Morrison
gptkb:F._Scott_Fitzgerald
gptkb:James_Joyce
gptkb:John_Steinbeck
gptkb:Julian_Barnes
gptkb:Kazuo_Ishiguro
gptkb:Neil_Gaiman
gptkb:Simone_de_Beauvoir
gptkb:Virginia_Woolf
gptkb:Zadie_Smith
gptkb:Chimamanda_Ngozi_Adichie
gptkb:Ernest_Hemingway
gptkb:Haruki_Murakami
gptkb:Jacques_Derrida
gptkb:Jorge_Luis_Borges
gptkb:Joyce_Carol_Oates
gptkb:Salman_Rushdie
gptkb:Stephen_King
gptkb:Ursula_K._Le_Guin
gptkb:William_Faulkner
gptkb:Albert_Camus
gptkb:Susan_Sontag
gptkb:J._M._Coetzee
gptkb:Gabriel_García_Márquez
gptkb:Jean-Paul_Sartre
gptkb:Michel_Foucault
gptkb:Philip_K._Dick
gptkb:Thomas_Bernhard
gptkb:Octavia_Butler
gptkb:Paul_Auster
gptkb:Harper_Lee
gptkb:Cynthia_Ozick
gptkb:John_Banville
gptkb:Tzvetan_Todorov
gptkb:W._G._Sebald
gptkb:Giorgio_Agamben
gptkb:Slavoj_Žižek
gptkb:Milan_Kundera
gptkbp:influenced_by gptkb:Friedrich_Nietzsche
gptkb:Arthur_Schopenhauer
gptkb:Martin_Heidegger
gptkbp:known_for gptkb:existentialism
pessimism
aphorisms
gptkbp:language gptkb:French
gptkb:Romanian
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:French
gptkb:Romanian
gptkbp:notable_work gptkb:The_Trouble_with_Being_Born
gptkb:On_the_Heights_of_Despair
A Short History of Decay
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:philosopher
gptkb:Christian_theology
gptkb:essayist
gptkb:Writer
gptkbp:place_of_birth gptkb:Rășinari,_Romania
gptkbp:place_of_death gptkb:Paris,_France
gptkbp:residence gptkb:Paris,_France
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Kingdom_of_Romania
gptkb:Bucharest
gptkb:Order_of_the_Star_of_Romania
gptkb:Romania
gptkb:Order_of_the_Crown_of_Italy
gptkb:Thomas_Ligotti
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4