Mount Analogue

Mount Analogue
Authors
Daumal, Rene
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Tags
fic019000 , philosophy , fic000000
ISBN
9781468304510
Date
1952-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Size
0.69 MB
Lang
en
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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.