Curiously, I first heard of Cioran in a novella by Jim Harrison, whose fiction runs much to the outdoors and the active life. I don't think that his writings are hard to find in the U.S., though on the other hand I first read a book of his this year, about 35 years after encountering a mention in the novella.

As I recall, the book I picked up had a blurb by Susan Sontag, a fairly big name in the US literary world. I have the impression that Martin Gardner included a piece on Cioran in his collection The Night Is Large, but I can't be sure.

(Now I want to catch the bus to Bridge Street Books to see if they stock Cioran.)