Ren Daumal (8 results)

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Essays reflecting on the science of imaginary solutions, from an influential figure in pataphysical thought Pataphysics: the science of imaginary solutions, of laws governing exceptions and of the laws describing the universe supplementary to this one. Alfred Jarry?s posthumous novel, Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician, first appeared in 1911, and over the next 100 years, his pataphysical supersession of metaphysics would influence everyone from Marcel Duchamp and Boris Vian to Umberto Eco and Jean Baudrillard. In 1948 in Paris, a group of writers and thinkers would found the College of ?Pataphysics, still going strong today. The iconoclastic René Daumal was the first to elaborate upon Jarry?s unique and humorous philosophy. Though Daumal is better known for his unfinished novel Mount Analogue and his refusal to be adopted by the Surrealist movement, this newly translated volume of writings offers a glimpse of often overlooked Daumal: Daumal the pataphysician. Pataphysical Essays collects Daumal?s overtly pataphysical writings from 1929 to 1941, from his landmark exposition on pataphysics and laughter to his late essay, ?The Pataphysics of Ghosts.? Daumal?s ?Treatise on Patagrams? offers the reader everything from a recipe for the disintegration of a photographer to instructions on how to drill a fount of knowledge in a public urinal. This volume also includes Daumal?s column for the Nouvelle Revue Française, ?Pataphysics This Month.? Reading like a deranged encyclopedia, ?Pataphysics This Month? describes a new mythology for the field of science, and amply demonstrates that the twentieth century had been a distinctly pataphysical era.…

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Paperback. Condition: very good(+). 3rd edition (stated). Octavo in original paper wraps; 254 pages; 19 cm. In French. Uncommon in the US. Contents: Le contre-ciel. Po?sie (1924-1931). Po?sie (1932-1943). Notes: Includes the author's "recueil de po?mes, Le contre-ciel." / "Ren? Daumal (1908 ? 1944) was a French spiritual para-surrealist writer, critic and poet, best known for his posthumously published novel Mount Analogue (1952) as well as for being an early, outspoken practitioner of pataphysics. . The motion picture The Holy Mountain by Alejandro Jodorowsky is based largely on Daumal's Mount Analogue. "?Wikipedia. Small price sticker scar to front wrap; pages browing as usual; chiefly unopened (uncut). About very good(+) to very good overall. …

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