Though Emil M. Cioran was highly regarded in Parisian literary circles, he was not well known to the French public or to the rest of the world, except for certain groups of international writers with avant- tendencies.
Though he had published many books at this point, Cioran continued to apply for grants, and work as a translator or reader for various publishing houses to survive. In his own words: I don't make a living, I eke one out.
He lived in the same small apartment in the fashionable Latin Quarter of Paris from 1960 on. Yet he still maintained influence back home: a letter Cioran published in a French journal led to twenty five year prison term for the philosopher Constantine Noica in Romania.
