In this novel/allegory the narrator/author sets sail in the yacht Impossible to search for Mount Analogue, the geographically located, albeit hidden, peak that reaches inexorably toward heaven.
Daumal's symbolic mountain represents a way to truth that cannot not exist, and his classic allegory of man's search for himself embraces the certainty that one can know and conquer one's own reality.In this novel/allegory the narrator/author sets sail in the yacht Impossible to search for Mount Analogue, the geographically located, albeit hidden, peak that reaches inexorably toward heaven. Daumal's symbolic mountain represents a way to truth that cannot not exist, and his classic allegory of man's search for himself embraces the certainty that one can know and conquer one's own reality.