num_pages: 120
description: Daumal's symbolic mountain represents a way to truth that "cannot not exist," and his classic allegory of man's search for himself embraces the certainty that one can know and conquer one's own reality.In this novel/allegory the narrator/author sets sail in the yacht Impossible to search for Mount Analogue, the geographically located, albeit hidden, peak that reaches inexorably toward heaven. Daumal's symbolic mountain represents a way to truth that "cannot not exist," and his classic allegory of man's search for himself embraces the certainty that one can know and conquer one's own reality.
language: English
title: Mount Analogue: A Tale of Non-Euclidean and Symbolically Authentic Mountaineering Adventures
titlecomplete: Mount Analogue: A Tale of Non-Euclidean and Symbolically Authentic Mountaineering Adventures
genres: Surreal, Fantasy, France, Philosophy, French Literature, Classics, Spirituality, Novels, Fiction, Literature
ratings_count: 2445
publisher: Harry N. Abrams