The Unspeakable Confessions of Salvador DaliDali's book is by turns joyous, excremental, spiritual, vain, sensual, didactic, innocent -- all of a piece with its creator. The facts of his life are all here, from his birth in Spain in 1904 through his studies and his military service and his arrival in Paris and then in the United States and his work not only in painting but also in the ballet, in window dressing, and in film. He discusses the many people he's known and worked with, among them Picasso, Lorca, Buñuel, Coco Chanel, André Breton, and Jean Cocteau. But most of all he tells us of himself, of his ties with the Spanish earth, his love of money, his investigations of death, the meaning of his art, his love for his wife. And out of all this emerges not only Dali the self-proclaimed genius but also Dali the vulnerable man. His book is a revelation of himself and a landmark in autobiographical literature. -- From publisher's description. |
Contents
How to Live with Death | 11 |
How to Get Rid of Ones Father | 23 |
How to Raise Caprice to the Dimensions of a System | 33 |
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