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The Powers of the Word
Selected Essays and Notes 1927-1943

René Daumal

Translated by Mark Polizzotti

René Daumal

Pataphysical Essays

René Daumal

Pataphysical Essays collects Daumal's overtly pataphysical writings from 1929 to 1941, from his landmark exposition on pataphysics and laughter to his late essay, "The Pataphysics of Ghosts." Daumal's "Treatise on Patagrams" offers the reader...