The Powers of the Word: Selected Essays and Notes 1927-1943

by René Daumal

Since his death in 1944, Rene Daumal has come to be recognized as one of the original minds of the twentieth century French letters. Poet, essayist, philosopher and translator, Sanscrit scholar and pupil of Gurdjieff, Daumal was a founder of the Grand Jeu group. He was iconoclastic and electic, able to embrace simultaneously Alfred Jarry's Pataphysics and Hindu teachings.

Daumal's two major works in English translation, Mount Analogue and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872862593
• ISBN13: 9780872862593
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: City Lights Books
• Length: 171 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.0"