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Essays reflecting on the science of imaginary solutions, from an influential figure in pataphysical thoughtPataphysics: 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 inf...

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A reissue of a French classic and modern masterpiece in the Tusk Ivories series. A Night of Serious Drinking is among Rene Daumal's most important literary works. Like Daumal's Mount Analogue it is a classic work of symbolic fiction. An unnamed narrator spends an evening getting drunk with a group of friends.

Acosa serve la poesia? Qual è la sua origine? Quale la sua natura e quali le leggi che la governano? L'uso delle parole richiede una precisa assunzione di responsabilità, e il dono della poesia impone la cura di un "mestiere interiore": l'umile e vertiginoso lavoro quotidiano che si fonda sulla conoscenza di noi stessi. Per René Daumal - poeta e filosofo tra i più originali del Novecento - la teoria non è mai disgiunta dalla pratica, e i sei t...

Since his death in 1944, Rene Daumal has come to be recognized as one of the original minds of the twentieth century French letters. Poet, essayist, philosopher and translator, Sanscrit scholar and pupil of Gurdjieff, Daumal was a founder of the Grand Jeu group. He was iconoclastic and electic, able to embrace simultaneously Alfred Jarry's Pataphysics and Hindu teachings.Daumal's two major works in English translation, Mount Analogue and A Nig...