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Hidden Faces

by Salvador Dali
Haakon Chevalier
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The only novel by the twentieth century's most acclaimed surrealist painter, a richly visual depiction of a group of eccentric aristocrats in the years preceding World War II
“The book is 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 evaluation of himself as a genius.”  — Observer
In swirling, surreal prose, the iconic artist Salvador Dalí portrays the intrigues and love affairs of a group of eccentric aristocrats who, in their luxury and extravagance, symbolize decadent Europe in the 1930s. In the shadow of encroaching war, their tangled lives provide a thrilling vehicle for Dalí's uniquely spirited imagination and artistic vision.
Hidden Faces beckons readers to enter the bizarre world already familiar to us from Dali's paintings. The story unfolds in vividly visual terms, beginning in the Paris riots of February 1934. The journey leading to the closing days of the Second World War constitutes a brilliant and dramatic vehicle for Dali's unique vision.
“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 ... Dali notices everything ...” — Guardian

  • Creators

  • Series

    Pushkin Press Classics

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    June 18, 2024

  • Formats

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      • ISBN: 9781805330561

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      • ISBN: 9781805330561
      • File size: 1025 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      May 1, 2024

      In the grandiloquent preface to this eccentric 1944 work, audacious surrealist Dal� (1904-89) proclaims his intent to counter the modern mania for speed with a "long and boring "true novel.'" He very nearly succeeds. The plot of this extravagant funhouse is a raveled skein of mistaken identities and romantic entanglements betwixt an indulgent aristocrat, his idolized inamorata, a disfigured Yankee pilot, a wealthy American heiress, her polyamorous admirer, and various others, including Adolf Hitler. All of this is rendered in a mannered, ostentatious style described by the book's translator, Chevalier, as a "lush jungle" of "superfluous epithet" and "elaborate festoons of redundancy," never using one word where two--or five--will do. VERDICT This isn't as entertaining as Dal�'s gleefully self-mythologizing memoirs, but the outr� decadence of his lone novel is not without its perverse delights, marking this out for cult status among devotees of Joris-Karl Huysmans and the Marquis de Sade.

      Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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  • English

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