Mount Analogue - Rene Daumal

Mount Analogue by Rene Daumal / ISBN 9781878972439 / paperback from the publisher Exact Change An all-time favorite (in the translation I've read over and over). *** This pataphysical journey up a mountain whose "summit must be inaccessible, but its base accessible to human beings" depicts an allegorical landscape akin to Alice in Wonderland A beloved cult classic of surrealism, pataphysics and Gurdjieffian mysticism, René Daumal’s Mount Analogue is the allegorical tale of an expedition to a mountain whose existence can only be deduced, not observed. As its numerous editions (most now rare) over the decades attest, the book has been highly influential: Alejandro Jodorowsky's visionary 1973 film The Holy Mountain is a loose adaptation of the book, and John Zorn based an eponymous album on it. This edition, a gorgeous addition to the Exact Change list, brings the original 1959 English translation by Roger Shattuck―widely considered the best―back into print. Left unfinished after Daumal’s