René Daumal

René Daumal

March 16, 1908 – May 21, 1944
Countries: France
Place of Birth: Boulzicourt, Ardennes, France
Place of Death: Paris, France

René Daumal (domal; 16 March 1908 – 21 May 1944) was a French spiritual para-surrealist writer and poet, best known for his posthumously published novel Mount Analogue (1952) as well as for being an early, outspoken practitioner of pataphysics.