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 · Mount Analogue by René Daumal, published by Exact Change Our hero’s quest to arrive at the pinnacle of human enlightenment begins with a Author: Nolan Kelly. Mount Analogue, the novel, has the force of 17 MOUNT ANALOGUE a curving and uncurving lens for our minds. Through it, we can glimpse that other world of which Nerval spoke, and Spinoza and Socrates. And yet it is hard to look through it, for so limpid a substance almost escapes ones attention even when it is right under ones eyes/5(3).  · Daumal died young, of tuberculosis, before completing Mount Analogue. As a result, the novel chronicles only the climb to the top of a mountain, and not the narrator’s descent. “If you slip or have a minor fall, don’t allow yourself an instant’s pause,” he writes:Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins.

Mount Analogue. by. René Daumal. · Rating details · 1, ratings · reviews. 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. Daumal's symbolic mountain represents a way to truth that. Mount Analogue: A Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing is a classic allegorical adventure novel by the early 20th-century French novelist René Daumal. The novel describes an expedition undertaken by a group of mountaineers to travel to and climb the titular Mount Analogue, an enormous mountain on a. René Daumal (16 March - 21 May )* was a French spiritual para-surrealist writer and poet, as well as an early, outspoken practitioner of 'pataphysics. The motion picture The Holy Mountain by Alejandro Jodorowsky is based largely on Daumal's Mount Analogue. Daumal died suddenly and prematurely from tuberculosis on 21 May

― René Daumal, Mount Analogue. 14 likes. Like “it is very tempting, when you talk about the events of the past, to impose clarity and order upon what had neither. René Daumal () 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 Daumal died young, of tuberculosis, before completing Mount Analogue. As a result, the novel chronicles only the climb to the top of a mountain, and not the narrator’s descent. “If you slip or have a minor fall, don’t allow yourself an instant’s pause,” he writes.