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Rene Daumal's Mugle and the Silk (Studies in French Literature)
Rene Daumal's Mugle and the Silk - Studies in French Literature Author:Rene Daumal Featuring an introduction and bibliography, this volume contains two of Rene Daumal's works translated into English: "Mugle" and "The Silk". Both stories are allegories of self-destruction and self-destructing writing. "Mugle" is written in the style of the surrealists. The text's interest is twofold: it is a cluster of intertexs, paraded and pa... more »rodied, grouped into two major areas. First, the urban preambulation which combinesLautremont and the surrealists and a philosophico-religious cluster combining Bernons and an ecletic reworking of major philosophers. Second, the text is a rigorous philosophical allergory of liberation, predicted on the struggle of consciousness to free itself, related to Daumal's "fundamental experiment" with the drug carbon tetrachloride. The stories are allegories of self-destruction and self-destructing writing.« less