A Night Of Serious Drinking Rene Daumal
Publisher: Overlook Press
ISBN: 1585673994
Edition: Paperback; 2003-04
Summary:
A Night of Serious Drinking is among René Daumals most important
literary works. Like Daumals Mount Analogue it is a classic work of
symbolic fiction that can be enjoyed purely as an entertaining and
imaginative story, but also for the much deeper meaning enwoven into
its deceptively simple plot: an unnamed narrator spends an evening
getting drunk with a group of friends.; as the party becomes totally
intoxicated and exuberant, the narrator embarks on a journey that
ranges from seeming paradises to the depths of pure hell. The
fantastic world depicted in A Night of Serious Drinking is actually
the ordinary world turned upside down. The characters are called the
Anthographers, Fabricators of useless objects, Scienters, Nibblists,
Clarificators, and other absurd titles. Yet the inhabitants of these
strange realms are only too familiar: scientists dissecting an animal
in their laboratory, a wise man surrounded by his devotees,
politicians, poets expounding their rhetoric. These characters
perform hilarious antics and intellectual games, which they see as
serious attempts to find meaning and freedom. Daumals keen
perceptions of the human condition infuse A Night of Serious Drinking
with a critique of culture and consciousness that if both disquieting
and enlivening.
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