Mount Analogue: A Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing
Daumal, René. Penguin Books, 1974. Softbound. First published in 1952 in Paris by Librairie Gallimard as Le Mont Analogue: Roman d'aventures alpines, non euclidiennes et symboliquement authentiques. Translated and with an Intro by Roger Shattuck. Foreword by Jacob Needleman. Postface by Véra Daumal. 'There is an art to finding your way in the lower regions by the memory of what you have seen when you were higher up,' Daumal writes in this surrealist novel, which ends mid-sentence due to the author's death from tuberculosis, a malady likely abetted by his youthful use of psychoactive chemicals, including carbon tetrachloride. The book, which riffs off of Alfred Jarry's pataphysics, served as source material for Alejandro Jodorowsky's The Holy Mountain and is here covered with an illustration adapted from a painting by Daumal's fellow Gurdjieffian William G. Tapley.
Tight, square spine has some sunning and a cosmetic crease. Clean, unmarked interior. Some light to moderate edge-wear and moderate to heavy toning/soiling to the back cover. 120 pp. Featured Rare & Collectible.
