The Lie of the Truth

The Lie of the Truth
René Daumal

ISBN 979-8-9893780-5-0
60pp

Hanuman Editions, 2023

"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, Daumal bids us to resist the very notion of the truth, and to recognize it as an artistic and metaphysical dead-end.