Mount Analogue: A Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing

by Rene Daumal

Overview

René Daumal’s symbolic mountain in Mount Analogue represents a way to truth that “cannot not exist,” and his classic allegory of man’s search for himself embraces the certainty that one can know and conquer one’s own reality.

In this novel/allegory, the narrator/author sets sail in the yacht Impossible to search for Mount Analogue, the geographically located, albeit hidden, peak that reaches inexorably toward heaven.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781585673421
Publisher:	The Overlook Press
Publication date:	06/01/2004
Series:	Tusk Ivories Ser.
Edition description:	Tusk Ivories ed.
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	5.38(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.55(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

René Daumal (1908–1944) was an editor of the French poetry and surrealist review Le Grand Jeu and received the Jacques Doucet Prize for his first volume of poetry, Le Contre-Ciel. Mount Analogue was first published, posthumously, in 1952.

Table of Contents

Introduction 11

Chapter 1 Which Is the Chapter of the Meeting 37

Chapter 2 Which Is That of Suppositions 65

Chapter 3 Which Is That of the Crossing 91

Chapter 4 In Which We Arrive and in Which the Problem of Money Arises in Precise Terms 111

Chapter 5 Which Is That of Setting Up the First Camp 135

Postface 148

Author's Rotes 152

Illustrations by the Author

Members of the expedition 69

Benito Cicoria 71

Vertical diagram of Mount Analogue 77

Horizontal diagram of Mount Analogue 79

Cylindrical projection showing land masses and situation of Mount Analogue 82

Editorial Reviews

Long out of print, Mount Analogue, René Daumal’s cult classic, offers a tale of renunciation and self-acceptance.

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