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Mount Analogue - René Daumal (Book Review)

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The Myth of Mount Analog

The author, both Dormal and then in the sense of the protagonist is meta-textual. He's writing not only as Mount Analog, you know, this book itself, an allegorical tale about what, about, about the notion of spiritual ascent up the mountain. It's also itself referring to itself and that idea within the book, so it's sort of triple layered in that way. We immediately find that what we're really seeing here is something that comes into existence in a peculiar fashion. This Mount Analog, this possibility of ascent and whatever this mountain may very well be,.

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