![]() ![]() ![]() William Walsh, an English poet, was a personal friend of Daumal and performed a radio presentation of Mount Analogue later in his life. The motion picture The Holy Mountain by Alejandro Jodorowsky is based largely on Daumal's Mount Analogue. He died leaving his novel Mount Analogue unfinished, having worked on it until the day of his death. He married Vera Milanova, the former wife of the poet Hendrik Kramer after Daumal's death, she married the landscape architect Russell Page.ĭaumal's sudden and premature death of tuberculosis on in Paris may have been hastened by youthful experiments with drugs and psychoactive chemicals, including carbon tetrachloride. Gurdjieff.ĭaumal was self-taught in the Sanskrit language and translated some of the Tripitaka Buddhist canon into the French language, as well as translating the literature of the Japanese Zen scholar D.T. for two novels A Night of Serious Drinking and the allegorical novel Mount Analogue: A Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing both based upon his friendship with Alexander de Salzmann, a pupil of G. In his late teens his avant-garde poetry was published in France's leading journals, and in his early twenties, although courted by André Breton co-founded, as a counter to Surrealism and Dada, a literary journal, "Le Grand Jeu" with three friends, collectively known as the Simplists, including poet Roger Gilbert-Lecomte. He was born in Boulzicourt, Ardennes, France. René Daumal was a French spiritual surrealist writer and poet. ![]()
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