"This book saved my life." So recalls the Romanian philosopher E. M. Cioran about a book that meditates on madness and death, the absurdity of existence, and the agony of consciousness. Cioran finds i
Born of a terrible insomnia--"a dizzying lucidity which would turn even paradise into hell"--this book presents the youthful Cioran, a self-described "Nietzsche still complete with his Zarathustra, hi
Richard Bewes, the former Rector of All Souls church, in London, has been called on to minister to people at the heights of their joy and the depths of their despair. In all situations he has been gui
