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The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí
by Salvador Dalí

ISBN: 0486274543
Dover Publications Price: $14.95
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This startling early autobiography takes Dalí through his late 30s and "communicates the snobbishness, self-adoration, comedy, seriousness, fanaticism, in short the concept of life and the total picture of himself (Dalí) sets out to portray" — Books. Superbly illustrated with over 80 photographs and scores of Dalí drawings and sketches.

Table of Contents for The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí
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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