At the beginning, there was error. Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down & cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation.

In this brief, dense essay, René Daumal bids us to resist the very notion of the truth, and to recognise it as an artistic and metaphysical dead-end.

René Daumal (1908-1944) was a French poet and writer often associated with surrealism (though he fought against the label), spiritualism, and ‘pataphysics’. He is perhaps best remembered for the posthumously published novel, Mount Analogue (1952).

60 pages, 7.6 x 10.5 cm, softcover, Hanuman Editions (London / New York).