Rene Daumal

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.

Rene Daumal's Titles

Le Contre-ciel Poetic Meditations on Death, Self, and the Search for the Absolute

Le Contre-ciel

For this early 20th century French poet-philosopher, life, in its most dynamic sense, can only be experienced after the facade of self-identity...


Mount Analogue

Mount Analogue

Daumal's symbolic mountain represents a way to truth that "cannot not exist," and his classic allegory of man's search for himself embraces the...


Night of Serious Drinking A Novel of Delusion, Self-Discovery, and the Real Meaning of Intoxication

A Night of Serious Drinking

A Night of Serious Drinking is among Rene Daumal's most important literary works. Like Daumal’s Mount Analogue it is a classic work of symbolic...