Le Contre-ciel: Poetic Meditations on Death, Self, and the Search for the Absolute (Tusk Ivories)

Daumal, René

ISBN 10: 158567401X / ISBN 13: 9781585674015

Published by The Overlook Press, 2005

Seller Inventory # BSM.14DE5

Synopsis:

The author of Mount Analogue explores an uncharted path to the authentic self in this enlightening volume of poetic meditations.

For Rene Daumal, true living can only be experienced after the facade of self-identity has been stripped away through a kind of metaphysical suicide. As he states in the second poem of this collection, "The individual mind attains its absolute through successive negations. I am that which thinks, not that which is thought."

In Le Contre-Ciel, Daumal invites his readers to venture with him on this Existential journey. Through philosophically contemplative poems, he acts as both chronicler and guide to the process of regeneration-through-negation in pursuit of genuine self-knowledge.

About the Author: René Daumal (1908-1944) was an editor of the French poetry and surrealist review Le Grand Jeu and received the Jacques Doucet Prize for his first volume of poetry, Le Contre-Ciel. Mount Analogue was first published, posthumously, in 1952.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Le Contre-ciel: Poetic Meditations on Death,...
Publisher: The Overlook Press
Publication Date: 2005
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: very_good