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Dalí, Salvador, 1904-1989, author.

The secret life of Salvador Dalí / by Salvador Dalí ; translated by Haakon M. Chevalier.

New York : Dover, 1993.

vii, 400 pages : illustrations (some color), plates ; 24 cm

An autobiography of Spanish artist Salvador Dali illustrated with more than eighty photographs of the man himself and his works as well as his sketches and drawings.

Dalí, Salvador, 1904-1989.

Painters -- Spain -- Biography.

Biographies.

Chevalier, Haakon, 1902-1985, translator.

Vie secrète de Salvador Dalí. English

"An unabridged and slightly altered republication of the work originally published by the Dial Press, New York, in 1942"--Title page verso.

In English translated from French.

Prologue -- PART ONE -- I. Anecdotic Self-Potrait -- II. Intra-Uterine Memories -- III. Birth of Salvador Dali -- IV. False Childhood Memories -- V. True Childhood Memories -- The Story of the Linden-Blossom Picking and the Crutch -- PART TWO -- VI. Adolescence; Grasshopper; Explusion from School; End of the European War -- VII. "It"; Philosophic Studies; Unfulfilled Love; Technical Experiments; My "Stone Period"; End of Love Affair; Mother's Death" -- VIII. Apprenticeship to Glory; Suspension from the School of Fine Arts of Madrid; Dandyism and Prison -- IX. Return to Madrid; Permanent Expulsion from the School of Fine Arts; Voyage to Paris; Meeting with Gala; Beginnings of the Difficult Idyll of my Sole and Only Love Story; I am Disowned by my Family -- Tale of the Wax Manikin with the Sugar Nose -- PART THREE -- X. Beginnings in Society; Crutches; Aristocracy; Hôtel du Château in Carry-le Rouet; Lydia; Port Lligat; Inventions; Malaga; Poverty; L'Age d'Or -- XI. "My Battle; My Participation and my Position in the Surrealist Revolution; "Surrealist Object" versus "Narrated Dream"; Critical-Paranoiac Activity versus Automatism" -- XII. "Glory Between the Teeth, Anguish Between the Legs; Gala Discovers and Inspires the Classicism of my Soul" -- XIII. Metamorphosis; Death; Resurrection -- XIV. Florence; Munich; Monte Carlo; Bonwit Teller; New European War; Battle Between Mlle. Chanel and M. Clavet; Return to Spain; Lisbon; Discovery of the Apparatus for Photographing Thought; Cosmogony; Perennial Victory of the Acanthus Leaf; Renaissance -- Epilogue.

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