Tears and Saints
By the mid-1930s, Emil Cioran was already known as a leader of a new generation of politically committed Romanian intellectuals. Researching another, more radical book, Cioran was spending hours in a …
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أن تلمس الكتب
«بمكتباتهم يُعرَف الناس». وتُعَدّ زيارةُ مكتبات الآخرين من أنسب طرائق التعرُّف بأصحابها، لأنها تفسِّر طباعهم وهواجسهم وفوضاهم.
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من خلال هذا العمل المُكثَّف الممتع، نلقي نظرةً كاشفةً على كثير من المكتبات…