An Infamous Past

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"A writer who does stupid things in his youth is like a woman with a shameful past, writes Marta Petreu - never forgiven, never forgotten. E.M. Cioran, the renowned Romanian-French nihilist philosopher and literary figure, knew this as well as anyone. Alongside Heidegger, Sartre, Paul de Mann, and others, Cioran was one of the important thinkers of the twentieth century to be seduced by totalitarianism: he experienced a most disturbing intellectual and moral drama."