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Rene Daumal
La Grande beuverie (Serious Drinking)

 

This novel, a sort of a guide combining the thrill of fiction and the seriousness of philosophy, makes it possible to rethink in an ironic way some modern aesthetic views as well as to reveal a profound, eternal mechanism of creative work. It touches on many issues tragically unresolved until now: the absurdity of existence, the freedom of the individual, the manipulation of consciousness, the encounter of western rationalism and eastern mysticism. The book also includes some essays by René Daumal.

ISBN 978-5-89059-181-4