and usage in his adopted language were seldom as harsh as in Romanian (though his use of Romanian is said to be more original). Legacy After the death of Cioran's long-term companion, Simone Boué, a collection of Cioran's manuscripts (over 30 notebooks) were found in the couple's apartment by a manager who tried to auction them in 2005. A decision taken by the Court of Appeal of Paris stopped the commercial sale of the collection. However, in March 2011, the Court of Appeal ruled that the seller was the legitimate owner of the manuscripts. The manuscripts were purchased by Romanian businessman George Brăiloiu for €405,000. An aged Cioran is the main character in a play by Romanian dramatist-actor Matei Vișniec, Mansardă la Paris cu vedere spre moarte ("A Paris Loft with a View on Death"). The play, depicting an imaginary meeting between Vișniec and Cioran, was first brought to the stage in 2007, under the direction of Radu Afrim and with a cast of Romanian and Luxembourgian actors; Cioran was played by Constantin Cojocaru. Stagings were organized in the Romanian city of Sibiu and in the Luxembourg, at Esch-sur-Alzette (both Sibiu and Luxembourg City were the year's European Capital of Culture). In 2009, the Romanian Academy granted posthumous membership to Cioran. Under the rule of Nicolae Ceaușescu, Cioran's works were banned. In 1974, Francoist Spain banned The Evil Demiurge for being "atheist, blasphemous, and anti-Christian", which Cioran considered "one of the greatest jokes in his absurd existence." American electronic musician Oneohtrix Point Never named a song for Emil on their 2009 release Zones Without People. Danish neofolk musician Kim Larsen re-enacted Cioran's choking arms photograph on the cover of the 2021 album Your Love Can't Hold This Wreath of Sorrow. Major works Romanian Pe culmile disperării (translated "On the Heights of Despair"), Editura "Fundația pentru Literatură și Artă", Bucharest 1934 Cartea amăgirilor ("The Book of Delusions"), Bucharest 1936 Schimbarea la față a României ("The Transfiguration of Romania"), Bucharest 1936 Lacrimi și Sfinți ("Tears and Saints"), "Editura autorului" 1937 Îndreptar pătimaș ("The Passionate Handbook"), Humanitas, Bucharest 1991 French All of Cioran's major works in French have been translated into English by Richard Howard. Précis de décomposition ("A Short History of Decay"), Gallimard 1949 Syllogismes de l'amertume (tr. "All Gall Is Divided"), Gallimard 1952 La Tentation d'exister ("The Temptation to Exist"), Gallimard 1956 | English edition: Histoire et utopie ("History and Utopia"),