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Ren Daumal's classic allegory of man's search for himself embraces the certainty that one can know and conquer one's own reality.

This pataphysical journey up a mountain whose "summit must be inaccessible, but its base accessible to human beings" depicts an allegorical landscape akin to Alice in Wonderland

A beloved cult classic of surrealism, pataphysics and Gurdjieffian mysticism,... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

ninguna creencia me fuera inculcada, el problema de la muerte se present? ante m? en toda su desnudez. Pas? noches atroces ara??ndome el vientre y agarrado a mi garganta por la angustia de la nada, del "m?s nada de todo" [plus rien du tout]. A los once a?os, una noche, aflojando... Read Full Overview