- Paperback: 120 pages
- Publisher: Overlook Press (31 May 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1585673420
- ISBN-13: 978-1585673421
- Product Dimensions: 20.2 x 14 x 0.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 758,767 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Format:Paperback
This is an absolutely incredible book: the use of transcendental imagery and metaphors ensures that it is enlightening, yet the simplistic and logical way the story is told makes it seem as if it is genuinely possible. It is extremely fast-paced and the forward and afterward provide remarkable insight into the works of Daumal and his inspirations (I would recommend reading neither until after you have read the novel itself!) Fantastic read.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The messages from this novel reach out on different levels. This is an excellent mind travel
through the work of Gurdjieff as portrayed by one of his students.
through the work of Gurdjieff as portrayed by one of his students.
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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful
A terrific read and a literary classic
12 Jun 2004
Format:Paperback
This is a terrific book even for those who are not into mountain climbing or the spiritual philosophy of Gurdjieff. Indeed, when I first read Mount Analogue more than 25 years ago--back in the days when I ignored introductions and back-cover blurbs--I took it for a surrealistic parody of the SciFi travel fantasies of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells. Part of its appeal for me lay in the way it connected my childhood interests in SF and Fantasy to my growing fascination with the high road of literary modernism. Like some armchair basecamp, Daumal's novel helped me to acclimatize myself before ascending to the loftier and more rarified air of The Magic Mountain and The Waste Land and Ulysses. But it's continuing appeal is that it is an absolutely gripping story, one that seizes you from the first page with all the tenacity of its half-crazed visionary hero Pierre Sogol, and doesn't let go for days and even weeks after you've finished reading it. Here, I think the translator, Roger Shattuck, deserves half the credit, for his English is a pleasure to the eye and the ear and to whatever it is in us that aspires to reach those sublime states where, like Daumal's narrator, we can say : "I ASSURE YOU THERE WAS FIRE AROUND US IN THE AIR!"
25 of 26 people found the following review helpful
A symbollically non-Euclidian adventure in mountainclimbing.
1 Aug 2004
Format:Paperback
This is one of those 'secret books' passed from friend to friend, artist to artist. My own initiation into this work certainly came at the most needed moment, and I hope this deliriously engaging analogy speaks to you now as sweetly as it whispered to me back then. Daumal's intriguing characters are hell-bent on marking the mountain that unites heaven and earth, a geographical place that "cannot not exist." Daumal draws obvious inspiration from his metaphysical tutelage under G.I. Gurdjieff, and the book has been radically reimagined by filmmaker and Tarot master Alejandro Jodorowsky in his epic 70's masterpiece "The Holy Mountain." Have a go-go.
18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
A small gem.
3 Jan 1998
Format:Paperback
This small, unfinished work is packed with wonderful ideas and a spirituality that appeals to both the head and the heart. Daumal's characters have the conviction that the mythical mountain that reaches from earth to heaven must actually exist, so they do the only reasonable thing -- they mount an expedition. A beautiful book.
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