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You've Always Been Wrong (Hardcover)
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You've Always Been Wrong (Hardcover)
Series: French Modernist Library
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You’ve Always Been Wrong is a collection of prose and poetic
works by the French writer René Daumal (1908–1944). A fitful
interloper among the Surrealists, Daumal rejected all forms of
dogmatic thought, whether religious, philosophical, aesthetic, or
political. Much like the Surrealists (and French theorists of more
recent decades), Daumal saw in the strict forms and certainties of
traditional metaphysics a type of thought that enslaves people even
as it pretends to liberate them. These “cadavers of thought,”
Daumal wrote with youthful bravado, “must be met with storms of
doubt, blasphemes, and kerosene for the
temples.” Daumal tied Surrealism with mystical
traditions. A devoted student of Eastern religions, philosophy, and
literature, he combined his skepticism about Western metaphysics
with a mystic’s effort to maintain intense wakefulness to the
present moment and to the irreducible particularity of all objects
and experience. Such wakefulness, according to Daumal, leads
inevitably to an overwhelming (and redemptive) “vision of the
absurd.” Daumal’s important place in French culture of
the late 1920s and 1930s has been assured by both his writings and
his role as cofounder of the avant-garde journal Le Grand Jeu.
Written between 1928 and 1930, You’ve Always Been Wrong reveals
Daumal’s thought as it was coalescing around the rejection of
Western metaphysics and the countervailing allure of Eastern
mysticism. Thomas Vosteen’s nuanced translation provides
English-language readers with a provocative introduction to this
iconoclastic author.
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