Born in the Ardennes in 1908, René Daumal died in 1944, at thirty-six. At sixteen, he learned Sanskrit; and he became one of the first Westerners to decipher philosophy, theater and poetry Indian writers. At seventeen, he became intoxicated tetrachloride "to learn how consciousness disappears the moment of death." At eighteen, he was the most outstanding candidate in ESP experiments of Pr. Maublanc that were to determine what the contents of a sealed boxes.
Pataphysics fan of Jarry and his notion of modern nonsense, came into contact with the Surrealist movement. But in 1927, founded by a group of writers (called "simplistic") literary magazine "Le Grand Jeu", which proclaims virulence metaphysical nature of life and attacks unceremoniously limiting the surrealist movement. In 1935, he published "Le Contre-Ciel" his collected poetry; book Jacques Doucet won the award, endorsed by Valery, Gide and Girandoux. In 1938, he finishes his first novel, "The Great beuverie"; in which taking thirst as a metaphor, draw a picture of a grotesque delirious humanity not to drink and not get drunk to be able to soothe his anguish or out of illusion in which they live.
Finally, in 1944, will leave unfinished what is considered his masterpiece, "The Mount Analogue", thanks to which his memory lingers.