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Italy, Mussolini, & Fascism
1,468 words Translated by Guillaume Durocher Translator’s Note: This has been retranslated from a French translation. I have improved the paragraphing. The title is editorial. Source: Emil Cioran,...
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Cioran, Germany, & Hitler
1,761 words Translated by Guillaume Durocher Translator’s Note: The following are excerpts from the preface to a collection of early articles by Emil Cioran translated from Romanian into French. I...
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Cioran’s On France: Thriving Amidst Decay
2,942 words Emil Cioran De la France Paris: L’Herne, 2015 This is a strange, vile little book as only Emil Cioran knew how to produce. It was only recently published, in both the original Romanian and...
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Cioran on Civilization & Decadence
Sébastien Bourdon, The Sacrifice of Iphigenia 833 words Translated by Guillaume Durocher Translator’s Note: The following extracts are drawn from Emil Cioran, De la France (Paris: L’Herne, 2015). The...
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The Greatness & Decay of France
The French signing the armistice with the Germans at Compiègne on June 22, 1940. 3,210 words Translated by Guillaume Durocher Translator’s Note: The following extracts are drawn from Emil Cioran, De la...
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The Art of Conversation
François de La Rochefoucauld 620 words Translated by Guillaume Durocher Translator’s Note: François de La Rochefoucauld was a seventeenth-century French nobleman, an opponent of royal autocracy, and a...
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Between Buddha & Führer: The Young Cioran on Germany
1,980 words Czech version here Emil Cioran Apologie de la Barbarie: Berlin – Bucharest (1932-1941) Paris: L’Herne, 2015 This is a very interesting book released by the superior publishing house...
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Against De Gaulle & the Rewriting of France’s Second World War History
Jean-Marie Le Pen as an MP in 1957. 2,304 words Translated by Guillaume Durocher Translator’s Note: The following is an excerpt from the concluding chapter of Jean-Marie Le Pen’s Mémoires: Fils de la...
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De Gaulle & the Algerian War
Lieutenant Le Pen being decorated by General Jacques Massu 1,431 words Czech version here Translated by Guillaume Durocher Translator’s Note: The following is an excerpt from the concluding chapter of...
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Letter from the Third Reich
1,016 words Translated by Guillaume Durocher Translator’s Note: This article is translated from the French version in Emil Cioran, Apologie de la Barbarie: Berlin – Bucharest (1932-1941) (Paris:...
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Unconscious Dogmas
497 words Translated by Guillaume Durocher We can penetrate the error of a being, reveal to him the inanity of his schemes and of his errors; but how can we tear him away from his relentlessness in...
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Jobbik: A Brief History of a Political 180
Gábor Vona, the former President of Jobbik, in 2015. Beginning in 2013, Jobbik began to soften its earlier militant image, in what was known in the Hungarian media as the “candy campaign.” These...
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Aspects of the German Soul
1,472 words Translated by Guillaume Durocher Translator’s Note: This article is translated from the French version in Emil Cioran, Apologie de la Barbarie: Berlin–Bucharest (1932-1941) (Paris: L’Herne,...
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Zen & Martial Arts
Taisen Deshimaru 3,080 words Translated by Guillaume Durocher Translator’s Note: The following extracts are drawn from Taisen Deshimaru, Zen et Arts martiaux (Paris: Albin Michel, 1983 [1977]). The...
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Travails of a Metic
369 words Translated by Guillaume Durocher Hailing from some unfortunate tribe, he paces about the West’s boulevards. Having loved one fatherland after another, he no longer hopes for any: Frozen in a...
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The “Celestial Dog”
John William Waterhouse, Diogenes (1882) 872 words Translated by Guillaume Durocher One cannot know what a man must lose to have the courage to defy all conventions; one cannot know what Diogenes lost...
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Morbid Meditations
Alphonse de Neuville, The Huns at the Battle of Chalons 2,411 words Translated by Guillaume Durocher Translator’s Note: The following extracts are drawn from Emil Cioran, Précis de décomposition...
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Video of the Day: Poetry With a Splash of Blood
152 words In the latest episode of Guide to Kulchur, Greg Johnson, Guillaume Durocher, and Ty E join Fróði Midjord to discuss the life and art of Yukio Mishima. On November 25th, 50 years ago, Mishima...
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Remembering Emil Cioran (April 8, 1911–June 20, 1995)
980 words Emil Cioran was a Romanian philosopher. Cioran was born on April 8, 1911 in Rășinari (Transylvania, then part of Austria-Hungary and today part of Romania) and died stateless in Paris on June...
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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 396 Guillaume Durocher on Éric Zemmour’s...
106 words / 1:07:33 Counter-Currents Radio host Greg Johnson welcomed Guillaume Durocher, a writer who is an expert on French politics, to talk about the Zemmour Question, and it is now available for...
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