Quote of the day
A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people, as no historical reconstruction can.
René Daumal

Born: March 16, 1908
Died: May 21, 1944 (aged 36)
Bio: René Daumal was a French spiritual para-surrealist writer and poet, best known for his posthumously published novel Mount Analogue as well as for being an early, outspoken practitioner of 'pataphysics.
Known for:
- Mount Analogue
- A Night of Serious Drinking (1938)
- Le Contre-Ciel
- You've always been wrong
- The Powers of the Word