Mount Analogue Author:Rene Daumal, Roger Shattuck In this novel/allegory, the narrator/author, one of an intrepid company of eight, 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 his classic allegory of man's se... more »arch for himself embraces the certainty that one can know and conquer one's own reality.
Daumal, often described as one of the most gifted literary figures in twentieth-century France, died before the novel was completed, providing an uncanny one-way quality to the journey.« less