Hidden Faces - Couverture souple

Dali, Salvador

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0720613043 ISBN 13 : 9780720613049

Editeur : Peter Owen Publishers, 2007

Synopsis

"As far back as 1922 the great poet Garcia Lorca had predicted that I was destined for a literary career and had suggested that my future lie precisely in the "pure novel."" In Salvador Dali's only novel, the reader enters the bizarre world already familiar to us from his paintings. Dali describes, in vividly visual terms, the intrigues and love affairs of a group of dazzling, eccentric aristocrats who, with their luxurious and extravagant lifestyle, symbolize the decadence of the 1930s. The story of the tangled lives of the protagonists, from the February riots of 1934 in Paris to the closing days of World War II, constitutes a brilliant and dramatic vehicle for Dali's vision and reads as an epitaph of pre-war Europe.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

Start the first page and you are in the presence of an old-fashioned baroque novel, intelligent, extravagant, as photographically precise as his paintings but not so silly . . . Dalí notices everything. --P.J. Kavanagh, Guardian

So full of visual invention, so witty, so charged with an almost Dickensian energy that it's difficult not to accept its author's own arrogant valuation of himself as a genius. --George Melly

Flames positively lick from Salvador Dalí s pages. --Hilary Spurling, Harpers & Queen

Biographie de l'auteur :

As far back as 1922 the great poet Garcia Lorca had predicted that I was destined for a literary career and had suggested that my future lie precisely in the pure novel . In this book, the only novel by Salvador Dalí and now in its seventh paperback edition, the reader enters the bizarre world already familiar to us from his paintings.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Peter Owen Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0720613043
• ISBN 13: 9780720613049
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320