Karl O Knausgaard's top 10 angel books
10 Tears and Saints by EM Cioran
After reading the church fathers and the saints, Cioran is a cold hand to a feverish head. "A St. Bartholomew´s Day massacre among angels would delight me immensely," he wrote. I think I understand what he meant. The friction between the author, who was a hardcore cynic, and his subject, which was naivety and purity of heart, created sharp and wonderful one-liners, such as "Christian ascetics thought that only the desert was without sin, and compared it to angels. In other words, there is purity only where nothing grows." Or " Theology is the negation of divinity. Looking for proof of God´s existence is a crazy idea. The poor maidservant who used to say that she only believed in God when she had a toothache, puts all theologians to shame."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/dec/11/angels-best-books-top-10
After reading the church fathers and the saints, Cioran is a cold hand to a feverish head. "A St. Bartholomew´s Day massacre among angels would delight me immensely," he wrote. I think I understand what he meant. The friction between the author, who was a hardcore cynic, and his subject, which was naivety and purity of heart, created sharp and wonderful one-liners, such as "Christian ascetics thought that only the desert was without sin, and compared it to angels. In other words, there is purity only where nothing grows." Or " Theology is the negation of divinity. Looking for proof of God´s existence is a crazy idea. The poor maidservant who used to say that she only believed in God when she had a toothache, puts all theologians to shame."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/dec/11/angels-best-books-top-10
有关键情节透露
- 作者: E. M. Cioran
- 出版: University Of Chicago Press
- 定价: USD 15.00
- 装帧: Paperback
- 页数: 154
- 时间: 1998-07-06