Albert Caraco
Albert Caraco was a French-Uruguayan philosopher, writer, essayist and poet of Turkish Jewish descent. He is known for his two major works, Post Mortem (1968) and posthumously published Bréviaire du chaos (1982). He is often compared to the philosophers and writers such as Emil Cioran, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Nicolás Gómez Dávila and Friedrich Nietzsche.
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Background
- Born in
- Constantinople
- Educated at
- Lycée Janson-de-Sailly
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Trending topics shown first"The cities in which we live in are schools of death, because they are dishuman. Each one of them has become a den of noise and of stench, for each of one has became a chaos of buildings, in which we a…"
"I was born to myself between 1946 and 1948, I then opened my eyes on the world, until that moment I have been blind"
"I don't hide my profession of pessimism and I'm an avowed partisan of reaction."
"In every saint there lurks an arrant knave, the marrow of all holyness being absolute hellishness. That is why our Saviours are of no awail, their remedies being too strong for common man, who is the …"
"The educated reader knows, as he reads me, that he is listening to a fugue in four voices."
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1919
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Died
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