A Night of Serious Drinking (Tusk Ivories) by Rene Daumal

By Rene Daumal

Daumal’s willing perceptions of the human infuse an evening of great consuming with a critique of tradition and attention that if either disquieting and enlivening.

A evening of significant consuming is between Rene Daumal's most crucial literary works. Like Daumal’s Mount Analogue it's a vintage paintings of symbolic fiction. An unnamed narrator spends a night getting inebriated with a bunch of pals; because the get together turns into intoxicated and exuberant, the narrator embarks on a trip that levels from seeming paradises to the depths of natural hell. the glorious global depicted in an evening of great ingesting is absolutely the normal international became the other way up. The characters are known as the Anthographers, Fabricators of dead items, Scienters, Nibblists, Clarificators, and different absurd titles. but the population of those unusual nation-states are just too known: scientists dissecting an animal of their laboratory, a sensible guy surrounded via his devotees, politicians, poets expounding their rhetoric. those characters practice hilarious antics and highbrow video games, which they see as severe makes an attempt to discover that means and freedom.

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