Volume 16, Number 1 · January 28, 1971
The Anomalous Creature
By W.H. Auden
The Fall into Time
by E.M. Cioran, translated by Richard Howard, with an Introduction by Charles Newman
Quadrangle, 224 pp., $5.95
The Fall into Time can and, I think, should be read simultaneously in at least two ways, perhaps more. It can be read seriously as a sermon by a latter-day Jeremiah (it is not an accident, surely, that M. Cioran is the son of a Greek Orthodox priest) about The Fall of Man, a passionate denunciation of the mess he has made of his life, a condition which, the preacher says, is better accounted for by theology than by biology.
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