René Daumal
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Born | surrealist writer, poet | 16 March 1908
Known for | Mount Analogue (1952) |
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René Daumal (French:
Biography
Daumal was born in
He is best known in the English-speaking world for two novels:
Daumal was
He married the Bulgarian émigré Vera Milanova, the former wife of the poet Hendrik Kramer; after Daumal's death, she married the landscape architect Russell Page.[8]
Death
Daumal's sudden and premature death from tuberculosis on 21 May 1944 in Paris may have been hastened by youthful experiments with drugs and psychoactive chemicals, including carbon tetrachloride. He died leaving his novel Mount Analogue unfinished, having worked on it until the day of his death.[2]
He is buried at Cimetière parisien de Pantin in Pantin, a municipality just outside Paris.[citation needed]
Legacy
The motion picture The Holy Mountain by Alejandro Jodorowsky is based largely on Daumal's Mount Analogue.[9]
Bibliography
Works by René Daumal in English translation
- Le Contre-Ciel (Le contre-ciel), Woodstock, New York: Overlook Press, 2005.
- Le Contre-Ciel: The Anti-Heaven, Part One, Black River Falls, Wisconsin, 2002. transl. and with an introduction by Jordan Jones.
- Le Contre-Ciel: The Anti-Heaven, Parts Two and Three, Black River Falls, Wisconsin, 2003. transl. Jordan Jones.
- A Fundamental Experiment, New York / Madras: Hanuman Books, 1987; first published: René Daumal, "A Fundamental Experiment", X magazine, Vol. I, No. I (November 1959).
- The Lie of the Truth and Other Parables from the Way of Liberation, New York / Madras: Hanuman Books, 1989.
- Mount Analogue (Le mont analogue), Woodstock, New York: Overlook Press, 2004.
- Mugle and the Silk (Mugle; La soie), New York, Edwin Mellen Press, 1997.
- A Night of Serious Drinking (La grande beuverie), Woodstock, New York: Overlook Press, 2003.
- Pataphysical Essays, Cambridge: Wakefield Press, 2012.
- The Powers of the Word (1927–1943) (Les pouvoirs de la parole), San Francisco: City Lights, 1991.
- 'Rasa or Knowledge of the Self' Essays on Indian Aesthetics and Selected Sanskrit Studies. New York: New Directions, 1982.* ed. Claudio Rugafiori, transl. Louise Landes Levi, Repr. Kathamndu, Nepal, Shivastan, 2002 & 2006 (each edition 333 copies).
- You've Always Been Wrong (Tu t'es toujours trompé), Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995. transl. Thomas Vosteen.
- René Daumal, Letters on the Search for Awakening, 1930–1944, Toronto: Dolmen Meadow Editions, 2010. transl. Gabriela Ansari and Roger Lipsey, with an introduction by Roger Lipsey.
References
- ISBN 9780810879454.
- ^ a b "René Daumal". Gurdjieff Club. 29 September 2019. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
- ISBN 978-1-351-37902-1.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-88268-129-0.
- ^ "René Daumal". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
- ^ "The Gurdjieff Legacy Foundation Archives". gurdjiefflegacy.org. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
- ^ "René Daumal". Gurdjieff Club. 29 September 2019. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
- ^ "René Daumal". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
- ^ "René Daumal". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
Further reading
- Phil Powrie, René Daumal and Roger Gilbert-Lecomte: A bibliography, London: Grant & Cutler, 1988.
- Kathleen Ferrick Rosenblatt, René Daumal: The Life and Work of a Mystic Guide, New York: Suny Press, 1999.
External links
- René Daumal Works Gurdjeiff International Review
- Holy War
- Skin of Light and Last Letter to his Wife
- Poetry Black Poetry White