«"..., dazzling creativity does not lie in the destiny of most people, nor should it – extreme trauma in the early years is almost always involved, and a fragmentation of the soul and then a driving need to achieve wholeness appears". This is what George Atwood has to say about the creative genius. This is the door to approaching Emil Cioran's personality.
I dedicated a paper in French to the great author at a conference about Cioran in Strasbourg, France, from June 20 to 21, 2023. I tried to elucidate the relationship between trauma and creative genius, focusing on Cioran and comparing him briefly with Nabokov and later more deeply with Nietzsche and Flaubert.
I used the instruments of psychobiography comparatively by confronting the elements of Cioran's life with George Atwood and Kyle Arnold's masterpiece psychobiography about Nietzsche.
I also used some highly relevant fragments of Sartre's mega biography (2.500 pages!) about Gustave Flaubert (L'Idiot de la Famille).
You can find more of the English version in Cioran au dela de Nietzsche and Flaubert: parallel psychobiographies by clicking on the attached link:https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4979137
