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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
[eng] Early in his life and literary career, Emil Cioran wrote literary-philosophical essays in which he
defended the extreme right movement and ideas in Romania of the 30s. Subsequently, he emigrated to
France where he denied right-wing ideology, became a master of paradox, and partially changed his
signature (“Cioran”). But did the Romanian-French author renounce the extreme right-wing ideology, as
De Emil Cioran a Cioran: análisis de un discurso politico
Tulbure, Corina Nicoleta
Borot, Marie-France
many critics want us to think? Is there a biased reception of his texts? Does historical context play a role
in structuring the reception of his work? To carry out the analysis of the two groups of texts of Emil
Cioran and Cioran, we used different methodological tools. We used concepts borrowed from discourse
analysis (Teun A. van Dijk), examining at the same time the role of context in the creation of the
message of the text, and way the author himself constructs the reception of his own texts depending on
the changes in historical context. At the theoretical level, our analysis is shaped by theories of
postcolonialism (descolonialidad) as specific epistemic and racist constructions (Ramón Grosfoguel) and
the psychoanalysis (the construction of the Moi and the work of mourning by the Authority).The author
´s French work is interpreted as a recreation of the Authority after its loss – a process of recreation that
produces an ecriture that commends the monotonous character of melancholy and boredom. We
conclude that no “two authors”- Emil Cioran and Cioran–as the critical exegesis wants to have it, but
that the “French author” carries on with different means the ideology of the extreme right that explicitly
shaped his texts in the 30s.