This article aims to put into perspective Cioran’s aphoristic work under the non-exclusive angle of style and to report on an “aesthetic despite itself”. It also attempts to show that this temptation for a literary aesthetics is not in contradiction with Cioran’s distrust against language sciences, or with the pragmatic issues of his negative philosophy.
CLIL theme: 4028 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes de littérature comparée