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Ren Daumal's 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... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

ninguna creencia me fuera inculcada, el problema de la muerte se present ante m en toda su desnudez. Pas noches atroces arandome el vientre y agarrado a mi garganta por la angustia de la nada, del "ms nada de todo" [plus rien du tout]. A los once aos, una noche, aflojando mi... Read Full Overview