This is a book I never heard of and wouldn’t have chosen to read. But since I received it as a present, I felt a little obligated. Mount Analogue: A Tale of Non-Euclidean and Symbolically Authentic Mountaineering Adventures was published posthumously in 1952 in French. According to Wikipedia, Daumal “was a French spritual para-surrealist writer and poet.” I don’t have a full [or any] understanding of spiritual para-surrealism, which might have contributed to my inability to really get into this one. It also didn’t help that […]