Editing René Daumal (section)

==Biography==
[[File:Boulzicourt (Ardennes) maison natale René Daumal.JPG|thumb|220px|House in [[Boulzicourt]], [[Ardennes (département)|Ardennes]], where Daumal was born]]
[[File:Boulzicourt (Ardennes) plaque maison natale René Daumal.JPG|thumb|160px|Close of the plaque, outside the house]]
Daumal was born in [[Boulzicourt]], [[Ardennes (département)|Ardennes]], France.<ref name="Flower">{{cite book |last1=Flower |first1=John |title=Historical dictionary of French literature |date=2013 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |location=Lanham, Md. |isbn=9780810879454 |page=163 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kd6tAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA163 |chapter=Daumal, René (1908–1944)}}</ref> In his late teens his [[avant-garde]] poetry was published in France's leading journals.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=2019-09-29 |title=René Daumal |url=https://gurdjieffclub.com/en/rene-daumal/ |access-date=2024-04-03 |website=Gurdjieff Club |language=en-US}}</ref> As an adolescent, Daumal co-founded the art group ''Les Phrères Simplistes'' with the poets [[Roger Gilbert-Lecomte]] and [[Roger Vailland]].<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Bauduin|first1=Tessel M.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9-crDwAAQBAJ&q=Daumal+surrealism&pg=PT82|title=Surrealism, Occultism and Politics: In Search of the Marvellous|last2=Ferentinou|first2=Victoria|last3=Zamani|first3=Daniel|date=2017-10-16|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-351-37902-1|language=en}}</ref> They would later co-found the literary journal ''Le Grand Jeu'', which published three issues between 1928 and 1930.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Gilbert-Lecomte|first=Roger|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pcdcAAAAMAAJ&q=Daumal|title=Black Mirror: The Selected Poems of Roger Gilbert-Lecomte|date=1991|publisher=Station Hill Press|isbn=978-0-88268-129-0|language=en}}</ref> Although courted by [[André Breton]], the journal was founded as a counter to [[Surrealism]] and [[Dada]];<ref>{{Cite web |title=René Daumal |url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3020747.Ren_Daumal |access-date=2024-04-03 |website=www.goodreads.com}}</ref> the Surrealists reacted to its publication with some hostility.<ref name=":0" />

He is best known in the English-speaking world for two novels: ''[[A Night of Serious Drinking]]'', and the [[allegorical]] novel ''[[Mount Analogue|Mount Analogue: A Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing]]'', both based upon his friendship with Alexander de Salzmann, a pupil of [[G. I. Gurdjieff]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Gurdjieff Legacy Foundation Archives |url=https://gurdjiefflegacy.org/archives/alexanderdesalzmann.htm |access-date=2024-04-03 |website=gurdjiefflegacy.org}}</ref>

Daumal was [[autodidacticism|self-taught]] in the [[Sanskrit]] language and translated some of the [[Tripitaka]] [[Buddhist]] canon into the French language, as well as translating the literature of the Japanese [[Zen]] scholar [[D.T. Suzuki]] into French.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-09-29 |title=René Daumal |url=https://gurdjieffclub.com/en/rene-daumal/ |access-date=2024-04-03 |website=Gurdjieff Club |language=en-US}}</ref>

He married the Bulgarian émigré Vera Milanova, the former wife of the poet Hendrik Kramer; after Daumal's death, she married the landscape architect [[Russell Page]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=René Daumal |url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3020747.Ren_Daumal |access-date=2024-04-03 |website=www.goodreads.com}}</ref>