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“... what has gone dead but carries the tide of sympathy into new places, cleansing and freshening. René Daumal’s surrealist La Grande Beuverie (1938) is now published for the first time in English translation as A Night of Serious Drinking. Where Laforgue admonishes our fatuous sexual dramas with sorrowful irony, ...”

“... xenophobia. Artaud is one of many French artists – Paul Claudel, Victor Segalen, Henri Michaux, René Daumal – who have opened themselves to and been transformed by India and Asia. And the anthropological riches of the Musée de I’Homme and Musée Guimet have nourished modern artists as nowhere else. All colonisation may be barbaric, but some ends ...”

“... At times, he sees his task as life-giving: ‘The point is to allow Catullus and [René] Daumal to speak as best they can across nebulous cultural boundaries, and not lie mute and moribund on the page.’ For Gansel the work is pastoral: Translation as Transhumance refers to the nomadic shepherd’s practice ...”