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Ren Daumal's cult classic is a visionary literary quest that blends adventure, philosophy, mysticism, and allegory into one of the twentieth century's most unusual novels.

In Mount Analogue, a group of explorers sets sail aboard the yacht Impossible... Read Full Overview

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

"Le commencement de tout ce que je vais raconter, ce fut une criture inconnue sur une enveloppe. Il y avait dans ces traits de plume qui tra aient mon nom et l'adresse de la Revue des Fossiles, laquelle je collaborais et d'o l'on m'avait fait suivre la lettre, un m lange... 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