Translated to Arabic, 'Aveux et anathèmes' (1st published in French, 1987), by Romanian/Parisian philosopher and essayist Emil Cioran (1911-1995), In this collection of essays and epigrams, E.M. Cioran gives us portraits and evaluations - which he calls 'admirations' - of Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the poet Paul Valery, and Mircea Eliade, among others. In alternating sections of aphorisms - his 'anathemas' - he delivers insights on such topics as solitude, flattery, vanity, friendship, insomnia, music, mortality, God, and the lure of disillusion. (from English Edition)