Mount Analogue : a tale of non-Euclidean and symbolically authentic mountaineering adventures

by René Daumal

Other authorsCarol Cosman
Paperback, 2004

Collection

Status

Available

Description

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 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. 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 certainty that one can know and conquer one's own reality.

Publication

Woodstock : Published by Overlook Press, 2004.

ISBN

9781585673421

Pages

119

Language

Original language

French

Original publication date

1952 (original French)
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