La pseudo lamentation de Cioran

Cioran has oscillated between despair and the plenitude of ecstasies. Lamentations as a melopoeic genre are not specific to him. And yet, nostalgia for paradise gives his writing a lamenting overtone. His way of deploring the fall from Eden into Time, then the fall from Time into a frozen sort of eternity, form an indirect lamentation and makes his work particularly interesting today. In this perspective, we hold that Cioran was a profound doctrinaire thinker and not the merely refined author of aphorisms and essays.