L’itinéraire mystique de Cioran, constamment refoulé dans un scepticisme gnostique, offre un exemple d’autodépassement du nihisme, autant dans une perspective axiologique que ontologique et ce, via une catharsis stylistique radicale. The vacuum’s god of Cioran. Romanian-born but a resident of Paris since 1937, Cioran has written pessimistic books like The Trouble being born or Avowals and Anathema. Like Nietzsche, Cioran surpass nihilism through the fragmentary writing but in a very paradoxical way. Why bother to explain and demonstrate one’s belief, as most philosophers do? Aphorisms are the end products of thought. He is the reverse of a professor because he hates explaining things. His subversive vision of God, against the usual faith,...