La caída en el tiempo

Emil Cioran invites us to reflect in this essay on the human ineptitude for happiness and our inability to bear it. The biblical account of Genesis made things clear from the beginning: by disobeying the divine mandate, by preferring wisdom to immortality, we sealed our destiny as wandering beings, in search of a lost Paradise to which, in any case, we could not adapt if we did not. we ever find him. Throughout these pages, the famous Romanian essayist wonders if innocence is the natural state of the human being, and pain, the condition of wisdom. The answer, paradoxical, surprising, is yet another example of the sarcasm and extreme lucidity of this master of thought.