Raluca Romaniuc, L’irréparable dans l’écriture de Cioran
The Irreparable in Cioran’s Writing
The aim of this article is to lay down the premises of an interpretation of the irreparable as an underlying concept in Cioran’s writings. Cioran’s essays depict a gripping vision of the irreparable that is fundamentally embedded in the human existence. He is therefore concerned with writing the irreparable. Human life unfolding in the hinges of history and time represents the epitome of the irreparable. However, this key notion applies to writing itself, seen both as a means and a process. This article expands on the different aspects of the irreparable as it defines Cioran’s writing. Intrinsically flawed — for subject to time — writing perpetuates the irreparable through the writer’s pursuit of the forever eluding meaning, of the quintessential Word, all the more daunting for the writer in a foreign language. Although marked by the irreparable, Cioran’s writing reveals itself as a means of escaping time and ultimately as a modus vivendi.
Keywords: Cioran, the irreparable, bilingual writers, modern authorship, discourse analysis
I
- Cioran. Cahiers 1957-1972/Notebooks 1957-1972. Paris, Éditions Gallimard, 1997
- Cioran. Entretiens/Interviews. Gallimard, Collection Arcades, 1995
- Cioran. Œuvres/Complete Works. Gallimard, Quarto, 1995
II
- Barthes, Roland. Essais critiques IV, Le Bruissement de la langue/Critical Essays IV, The Rustle of Language. Paris, Éditions du Seuil, 1984
- Ionesco, Eugène. Journal en miettes/Fragments of a Journal. Gallimard, Collection Idées, 1973
- Picon, Gaëtan. L’Écrivain et son ombre. Introduction à une esthétique de la littérature/The Writer and His Shadow. Introduction to an Aesthetics of Literature. Paris, Gallimard, Collection Tel, (1953) 1996
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