The Trouble With Being Born

Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately it is within no one's reach.'<br><br>InThe Trouble With Being Born, E. M. Cioran grapples with the major questions of human existence: birth, death, God, the passing of time, how to relate to others and how to make ourselves get out of bed in the morning.<br><br>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.<br><br>Translated by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and critic Richard Howard,The Trouble With Being Bornis a provocative, illuminating testament to a singular mind.