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Alain Dani lou was an accomplished pianist, dancer, player of the Indian v n , painter, linguist and translator, photographer, and world traveler.
To these attainments he has added The Way to the Labyrinth , translated into English by Marie-Claire Cournand.
Born of a haute-bourgeoise French family--his mother an ardent Catholic, his father an anticlerical leftwing politician, his older brother a cardinal--Dani lou spent a solitary childhood.
Escaping from his family milieu, he went.