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René Daumal

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René Daumal (1908 - 1944) was a French surrealist writer, philosopher and poet, best known for two novels A Night of Serious Drinking and the truly bizarre Mount Analogue: A Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing. His premature death of tuberculosis in 1944 was in all probability hastened by youthful experiments with a heady cocktail of drugs and psycho-active chemicals, the principal culprit amongst these no doubt being carbon tetrachloride. He was a pupil of G. I. Gurdjieff.

See: Daumal: The Life and Work of a Mystic Guide by Kathleen Ferrick Rosenblatt (NY: State University of New York Press, 1999)

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