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Title: A Night of Serious Drinking: A Novel
Author: Daumal, Rene/ Coward, David/ Lovatt, Edwin A.

Publisher:Overlook Pr
Publication Date:Apr-01-2003
Pages:121
Binding:Paperback
Edition:reprint
Dimensions:5.50 (W) x 8.00 (H) x 0.25 (D)
ISBN:1585673994
Subject:Fiction / Classics

Description: In a work that presents the teachings of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky in the form of symbolic fiction, the narrator, intoxicated after an evening of revels with friends, is taken on a journey that ranges from sublime paradises to the depths of human hells. Reprint.

A Night of Serious Drinking is among René Daumal's most important literary works. 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 enwoven into its deceptively simple plot: An unnamed narrator spends an evening getting drunk with a group of friends. As the party becomes totally intoxicated and exuberant, the narrator embarks on a journey that ranges from seeming paradises to the depths of pure hell.

Daumal's keen perceptions of the human condition infuse A Night of Serious Drinking with a critique of culture and consciousness that is both disquieting and enlivening. -- Penguin Putnam


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