René Daumal was a French poet, essayist, novelist, dramatist, literary critic, translator and scholar of Sanskrit and Indian aesthetics. He was a founder of the Phrères Simplistes and one of the principal writers and editors of the avant-garde magazine and group Le Grand Jeu.
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René Daumal was a French poet, essayist, novelist, dramatist, literary critic, translator and scholar of Sanskrit and Indian aesthetics. He was a founder of the Phrères Simplistes and one of the principal writers and editors of the avant-garde magazine and group Le Grand Jeu. His work brought together the visionary poetics of Arthur Rimbaud and Gérard de Nerval, the pataphysics of Alfred Jarry, experiments in altered consciousness, Sanskrit and Indian poetics, the metaphysical writings of René Guénon, and the teaching of G. I. Gurdjieff.
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