
Mount Analogue - René Daumal (Book Review)
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Mount Analogue by Rone Dormal
Mount Analogue is a novel of symbolically authentic non-Euclidean adventures in mountain climbing, usually known and referred to simply as Mount Analogue. It was originally published in the French in 1952 and then published in English in 1959. The story goes that he was right against someone knocked at his door and quite literally finishes mid-sentence,. Then he never returned to writing the novel and died before even finishing the sentence. So we have sort of half a novel, so in a sense it's become a novella with a fairly lengthy introduction by Roger Shetuk who also translated it. To peculiar, surrealist, spiritual allegorical novel, leaning emphatically on the notion of
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