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Anyone think this guy gets too much hate? Like I get that his works can sometimes read like an emo teens diary or whatever, but I think he's at least a really good writer. I'll admit that maybe his philosophy is a bit juvenile, but speaking from experience he's a good intro to philosophy because of how accessible his ideas are. But you've gotta admit that his prose is really good and when I read On the Heights of Despair I really did enjoy his prose style and thought that is was really beautiful. Inb4 "Literally who?" It's Emil Cioran.

>> No.16434483

>>16434276
I read him as a comedian, a bleak comedian yes, but a comedian at last.

>> No.16434558

who hates based emil

>> No.16435102

>>16434276
Cioran himself didn't like "On the Heights of Despair" - he said it was too flowery
Read his later works

>> No.16435563

>>16434558
Some people don’t like him here. Maybe less than I thought, but I’ve only ever seen people disliking him.

>>16435102
Yeah I should. I personally enjoyed the flowery prose of OtHoD but I should read his other stuff.

>> No.16435627

>>16435563
People on here usually don't like him because he was very critical of Nietzsche