On Lev Shestov's Religion
Reading The Apotheosis of Groundlessness (often translated into English as All Things Are Possible) was a peculiar experience for me. I knew Shestov as something of a mentor to Bataille in a limited, literary sense, and a stylistic inspiration to Emile Cioran.
He's a better writer than either. He's equally more vicious than Cioran because his exhaustion…
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