A Night of Serious Drinking: A Novel

A Night of Serious Drinking: A Novel

by René Daumal
A Night of Serious Drinking: A Novel

A Night of Serious Drinking: A Novel

by René Daumal

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Overview

The French poet and author of Mount Analogue shares a satirical allegory of the absurdities of intellectual society.

As in Rene Daumal’s cult classic Mount Analogue, A Night of Serious Drinking concerns an autobiographical protagonist on a mind-expanding journey. But rather than seeking enlightenment, the anonymous narrator recounts an evening getting drunk with a group of friends. As the party becomes intoxicated and exuberant, the narrator’s wandering lead him from seeming paradises to the depths of pure hell.

The characters our hero encounters go by absurd titles, such as Anthographers, Fabricators of useless objects, Scienters, Nibblists, and Clarificators. Yet the inhabitants of these strange realms are only too familiar: scientists dissecting an animal in their laboratory, a wise man surrounded by his devotees, politicians angling for influence, and poets expounding their rhetoric. Their hilarious antics and intellectual games reveal incisive social commentary that combines poetic imagination and philosophical depth.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781468304848
Publisher: ABRAMS, Inc.
Publication date: 09/01/2022
Series: Tusk Ivories
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 138
Sales rank: 988,871
File size: 521 KB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

René Daumal (1908-44) 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

Foreword1
Part I
A labored dialogue on the power of words and the frailty of thought (1 to 19)5
Part II
Delusions of paradise (1 to 42)33
The Fidgeters (7 to 9)40
The Fabricators of useless objects (10 to 22)44
The Clarificators (23 to 39)63
With the artificial gods (40 to 42)91
Part III
The cold light of day (1 to 12)99
The fire, the sun, the awakening (1 to 5)99
The walking house (6 to 8)104
Of man as larva, and or love as an example (9 to 12)107
Index115
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