Thoughts from the Other Europe
"Cioran, at twenty-two, in his first book, is already
wholly
Cioran.
Here is his tonic cynicism, his religious passion at war with itself,
his extravagant honesty, his sensuality, his lyricism....
Our fin-de-siecle is Cioran's moment: we need,
all
of us, to
understand, before it is too late, the paradox of his celebratory
bitterness." - Andrei Codrescu
"Michnik is one of those
who bring honor to the
last two decades of the
twentieth century."
- Czeslaw Milosz, writing
in
The New &public
Forthcoming in Winter 1993
THE CHURCH
AND THE LEFT
Adam Michnik
ON THE HEIGHTS
OF DESPAIR
E. M. (ioran
Translated and with an Introduction
by
lIinea Zorifopol-Johnston
This early work by "the most distin–
guished figure in the tradition of
Kirkegaard, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein"
(Susan Sontag) offers insight into the
deeply ironic anguish of the philosophical
mind.
Cloth S18.95 160 pages
OCOPVRIGHT 11184 JAN HAUS8RANOT, COUATESY OF BLACK STAR
Edited, translated, and with an Introduction
by
David Ost
Michnik offers unparalleled insight into the unlikely alliance between
the Catholic Church and Poland's dissident Left, as weU as the internal
struggles stiU present in Eastern Europe.
Cloth S27.50 (est.) 280 pages (est.)
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