Mount Analogue

Mount Analogue: A Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing
First English-language edition
AuthorRené Daumal
Original titleLe Mont Analogue. Roman d'aventures alpines, non euclidiennes et symboliquement authentiques
LanguageFrench
Genrefantasy
PublisherVincent Stuart Ltd. (Eng. trans.)
Publication date
1952
Publication placeFrance
Published in English
1959
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages106 p. (hardback edition)
ISBN0-87773-850-5
OCLC25747666
843/.912 20
LC ClassPQ2607.A86 M613 1992

Mount Analogue: A Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing is a classic allegorical adventure novel by the early 20th-century French novelist René Daumal. The novel describes an expedition undertaken by a group of mountaineers to travel to and climb the titular Mount Analogue, an enormous mountain on a surreal continent which is invisible and inaccessible to the outside world, and which can only be perceived by the application of obscure knowledge. The central theme of mountaineering is extensively explored through literary and philosophical lenses.

Daumal died before the novel was completed, providing an uncanny one-way quality to the story, which ends abruptly in the middle of a sentence. The remnants of the unfinished story were first published posthumously in French in 1952, and the first English translation was published by Vincent Stuart Ltd. in 1959.