WRITER

René Daumal

1908 - 1944

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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of René Daumal has received more than 143,851 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). René Daumal is the 3,140th most popular writer (down from 3,071st in 2019), the 3,273rd most popular biography from France (down from 3,130th in 2019) and the 410th most popular French Writer.

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.96

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  • 1.84

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Notable Works

Essais et notes
1953
Mount Analogue
Fiction, general
1968
La grande beuverie
1939
Mont Analogue
Mountaineering, Fiction, Fiction, general
1960
Grande beuverie
Fiction, general, Drinking of alcoholic beverages, Fiction
1979
Le Mont Analogue
1952

Among WRITERS

Among writers, René Daumal ranks 3,140 out of 7,302. Before him are Robert Harris, Símun av Skarði, Mario Soldati, Étienne Jodelle, Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, and Fadwa Tuqan. After him are Antonio de Guevara, Niklaus Manuel Deutsch, Tristan Bernard, Qian Zhongshu, Edward Gorey, and Ignacio Ramonet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, René Daumal ranks 169. Before him are William Hartnell, Nikolay Nosov, Baby Face Nelson, Fritz Fischer, Virginia Cherrill, and Ho Jong-suk. After him are Bronisława Wajs, Bobojon Ghafurov, Pál Titkos, Jack Crawford, Fred MacMurray, and Karl Hohmann. Among people deceased in 1944, René Daumal ranks 184. Before him are Félix Fénéon, Liviu Rebreanu, Prafulla Chandra Ray, Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, Félix Éboué, and Lepke Buchalter. After him are Sára Salkaházi, Stefan Rowecki, Leone Ginzburg, Georges Mandel, Prince Gustav of Denmark, and Mariya Oktyabrskaya.

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In France

Among people born in France, René Daumal ranks 3,273 out of 6,770. Before him are Robert Cambert (1628), Étienne Jodelle (1532), Claude Pouillet (1790), Jean Rollin (1938), Louis, Duke of Guyenne (1397), and Victor Loret (1859). After him are Georges Franju (1912), Tristan Bernard (1866), Léon Gaumont (1864), Georges Vacher de Lapouge (1854), René de Saussure (1868), and Olivier Blanchard (1948).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, René Daumal ranks 410. Before him are Charles-Louis Philippe (1874), Sylvain Maréchal (1750), Jean-Christophe Grangé (1961), Antoine de Rivarol (1753), Charles de Saint-Évremond (1613), and Étienne Jodelle (1532). After him are Tristan Bernard (1866), Daniel-Rops (1901), Casimir Delavigne (1793), Antoine de la Sale (1388), José Giovanni (1923), and Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (1755).

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