Alexandru Matei, Emil Cioran ou l’alibi de l’Histoire
Emil Cioran or the alibi of History
The thrust for „judging” Cioran’s Romanian writings – especially after Alexandra Laignel Lavastine’s study in 2002 on Eliade, Cioran, and Ionesco – has generated number of defensive reactions that do not help understanding his ideas in the particular situations they were expressed. Therefore, we do not wish to accuse nor defend Cioran, but to show, on reading his famous Transfiguration of Romania (1936), how his deep historical sensibility did not come to be revised after 1940, but had to find other ways to express itself as the reality of Revolution showed its inanity, and the astonishing similarities between the ideas of “historical jump” expressed by Cioran and the first stage of Ceausescu’s regime1[i].
Keywords: Emil Cioran, Transfiguration of Romania, historical jump, Aufhebung, revolution, nationalism
- Emil Cioran, Schimbarea la faţă a României / Transfiguration of Romania, Bucureşti, Humanitas, 1990
- Emil Cioran, Transfiguration de la Roumanie /Transfiguration of Romania, Paris, L’Herne, 2009
- Constantin Zaharia, „Cioran au passé antérieur” / „Cioran in the anterior past”, Critique, no 756, mai 2010, p. 387-404
