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- catalog abstract ""A Night of Serious Drinking is among Rene Daumal's most important literary works. Like his Mount Analogue, it is a work of symbolic fiction that can be enjoyed purely as an entertaining and imaginative story, but also for the much deeper meaning embedded in its deceptively simple plot: An unnamed narrator spends an evening getting drunk with a group of friends. As the party becomes intoxicated and more and more exuberant, the narrator embarks on a journey ranging from seeming paradises to the depths of pure hell. The fantastic world depicted in A Night of Serious Drinking is actually the ordinary world tumed upside down. The characters are called the Anthographers, Fabricators of Useless Objects, Scienters, Nibblists, Ciarificators, and other absurd titles. Yet the inhabitants of these strange realms are only too familiar; scientists dissecting an animal in their laboratory a wise man surrounded by his devotees, politicians and poets expounding their rhetoric. These characters perform hllarious antics and intellectual games, which they see as serious attempts to find meaning and freedom." "Daumal's keen perceptions about the human condition infuse A Night of Serious Drinking with a critique of culture and consciousness that is both disquieting and enlivening Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog alternative "Grande beuverie. English".
- catalog contributor b12948741.
- catalog contributor b12948742.
- catalog contributor b12948743.
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""A Night of Serious Drinking is among Rene Daumal's most important literary works. Like his Mount Analogue, it is a work of symbolic fiction that can be enjoyed purely as an entertaining and imaginative story, but also for the much deeper meaning embedded in its deceptively simple plot: An unnamed narrator spends an evening getting drunk with a group of friends. As the party becomes intoxicated and more and more exuberant, the narrator embarks on a journey ranging from seeming paradises to the depths of pure hell. The fantastic world depicted in A Night of Serious Drinking is actually the ordinary world tumed upside down. The characters are called the Anthographers, Fabricators of Useless Objects, Scienters, Nibblists, Ciarificators, and other absurd titles. Yet the inhabitants of these strange realms are only too familiar; scientists dissecting an animal in their laboratory a wise man surrounded by his devotees, politicians and poets expounding their rhetoric. These characters perform hllarious antics and intellectual games, which they see as serious attempts to find meaning and freedom." "Daumal's keen perceptions about the human condition infuse A Night of Serious Drinking with a critique of culture and consciousness that is both disquieting and enlivening Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. xxi-xxii) and index.".
- catalog description "Labored dialogue on the power of words and the frailty of thought (1 to 19) -- Delusions of paradise (1 to 42) -- Fidgeters (7 to 9) -- Fabricators of useless objects (10 to 22) -- Clarificators (23 to 39) -- With the artificial gods (40 to 42) -- cold light of day (1 to 12) -- fire, the sun, the awakening (1 to 5) -- walking house (6 to 8) -- Of man as larva, and or love as an example (9 to 12).".
- catalog extent "xxii, 119 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "1585673994 (pbk.)".
- catalog isPartOf "Tusk ivories".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng fre".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Woodstock, NY : Overlook Press,".
- catalog subject "Drinking of alcoholic beverages Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PQ2607.A86 G713 2003".
- catalog tableOfContents "Labored dialogue on the power of words and the frailty of thought (1 to 19) -- Delusions of paradise (1 to 42) -- Fidgeters (7 to 9) -- Fabricators of useless objects (10 to 22) -- Clarificators (23 to 39) -- With the artificial gods (40 to 42) -- cold light of day (1 to 12) -- fire, the sun, the awakening (1 to 5) -- walking house (6 to 8) -- Of man as larva, and or love as an example (9 to 12).".
- catalog title "A night of serious drinking : [a novel] / by René Daumal ; translated from the French by David Coward and E.A. Lovatt ; introduction by Kathleen Ferrick Rosenblatt.".
- catalog title "Grande beuverie. English".
- catalog type "Allegories. gsafd".
- catalog type "text".