This is a post in our Author of the Week series.
Rene Daumal was born in 1908 in France.
He practiced writing from a young age and when he was in his late teens his avant-garde style of poetry was published in some of France's top journals. In his early twenties he created the literary journal "Le Grand Jeu" with three of his friends who began to be known as Simplists.
In the U.S. he became known for two of his novels A Serious Night of Drinking and Mount Analogue.
Rene Daumal was a very well educated and impressive man. He actually taught himself sanskrit and translated part of the Tripitaka Buddhist into French.
His early success as a writer was completely cut short by his death from tuberculosis in 1944. Many believed that this death was brought on sooner by his experimentation with drugs including carbon tetrachloride.
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