Book review: Searching for Cioran

"Zarifopol-Johnston ... was in many ways ideally placed to understand her subject. Not only was she Cioran's translator ... and profoundly familiar with his Romanian background, she was an exile herself. Her feelings towards the place Cioran left thirty years before her are not unlike his. The book's unfinished quality and fragility resonates with Cioran's own precariousness and especially with his illness and death..." —Times Literary Supplement