René Daumal's Mugle and the Silk
Daumal, René ,  Phil Powrie , translator

Description

Translation (with introduction and bibliography) of René Daumal's two short stories, written in 1925-26. Mugle is written automatically in the style of the surrealists. The text's interest is twofold: it is a cluster of intertexts, paraded and parodied, grouped into two major areas. First, the urban perambulation which combines Lautréamont and the surrealists and a philosophico-religious cluster combining Bernanos and an eclectic reworking of major philosophers. Second, the text is a rigorous philosophical allegory of liberation, predicated on the struggle of consciousness to free itself, related to Daumal's 'fundamental experiment' with the drug carbon tetrachloride. The stories are allegories of self-destruction and self-destructing writing.

ISBN10:  0-7734-8580-5   ISBN13:  978-0-7734-8580-8    Pages:  100    Year:  1997   

Series: Studies in French Literature Number: 4

Subject Areas:  French - Translations, French - Literature,

Imprint: Edwin Mellen Press

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