Background
He was born in Boulzicourt, Ardennes, France.
novelist translator writer poet
He was born in Boulzicourt, Ardennes, France.
Daumal"s sudden and premature death from tuberculosis on 21 May 1944 in Paris may have been hastened by youthful experiments with drugs and psychoactive chemicals, including carbon tetrachloride. He died leaving his novel Mount Analogue unfinished, having worked on it until the day of his death. The motion picture The Holy Mountain by Alejandro Jodorowsky is based largely on Daumal"s Mount Analogue.