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You'Ve Always Been Wrong (French Modernist Library),Used
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Youve Always Been Wrong is a collection of prose and poetic works by the French writer Ren Daumal (19081944). 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 mystics 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.Daumals 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 avantgarde journal Le Grand Jeu. Written between 1928 and 1930, Youve Always Been Wrong reveals Daumals thought as it was coalescing around the rejection of Western metaphysics and the countervailing allure of Eastern mysticism. Thomas Vosteens nuanced translation provides Englishlanguage readers with a provocative introduction to this iconoclastic author.
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