Le Contre-Ciel: Poetic Meditations on Death, Self, and the Search for the Absolute

Le Contre-Ciel: Poetic Meditations on Death, Self, and the Search for the Absolute - Paperback

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Le Contre-Ciel: Poetic Meditations on Death, Self, and the Search for the Absolute - Paperback

Le Contre-Ciel: Poetic Meditations on Death, Self, and the Search for the Absolute - Paperback

by Rene Daumal
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by Rene Daumal (Author), Keltonw Knight (Translator)

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.

Author Biography

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.

Number of Pages: 156
Dimensions: 0.46 x 7.94 x 5.38 IN
Publication Date: March 01, 2005
ISBN9781585674015
Author Rene Daumal
PublisherHarry N. Abrams
GenreLiterature and Philosophy
FormatPaperback
PublishedMarch 2005
LanguageENG- English
Pages156
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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