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In Salvador Dali's only novel - an international best-seller - we enter the bizarre world already familiar to us from his paintings.
In rich and visual language Dali portrays the intrigues and love affirs of a group of eccentric aristocrats, who, in their luxury and extravagance, symbolize decadent Europe in the 1930s. The story of their tangled lives, up to the closing days of the Second World War, constitutes a dramatic vehicle for Dali's unique vision.
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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
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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
In Salvador Dali's Hidden Faces - now in its sixth impression in English - we enter 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 Europe in the 1930's. The story of the tangled lives of the protagonists, from the Paris riots of February 1934 to the closing days of the Second World War, constitutes a brilliant and dramatic vehicle for Dali's unique vision and reads as an epitaph to pre-war Europe.
'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 valuation of himself as a genius.' George Melly, The Observer
'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 everthing ...' PJ Kavanagh, Guardian
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- PublisherPeter Owen Publishers
- Publication date1973
- ISBN 10 0720604826
- ISBN 13 9780720604825
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages320
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Book Description Condition: Good. 1944. Binding is tight, page block is sturdy, boards straight, no highlights or underlining. Dust wrapper shows some minor rubbing, minor tanning to pages. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. US veteran operated. Seller Inventory # 1LAA3T00162A
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Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Salvador Dali (illustrator). Reissue. 318 pp. Considerable general and edgewear to price-clipped dustjacket. Faint dust foxing to upper edge of text block. Lower board edges and corners a little bumped. Light pencil marks to front free endpaper. Internally unmarked; solidly bound. Black-and-white plates; black-and-white drawings in the text. Salvador Dali's only novel. Size: Octavo. Seller Inventory # 005775
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Book hardcover First UK edition 7 illustrations by Dali pp320. Condition Fine very light foxing to DJ otherwise As New. Seller Inventory # L11.271.4
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Book Description Condition: Collectible; Good. [FIRST EDITION] New York: Dial Hardback, 1944. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Rare novel by surrealist artist Salvador Dali. 413 pages, with frontispiece and tailpiece designed by Dali. Good overall condition with light storage wear, soiling to black cloth boards, minor age-toning to text. No marks, NOT EX-LIBRARY. (B). Seller Inventory # 30-H7K3-FOMY
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket and illustrations by the author (illustrator). 1st Edition. First published in English in the USA in 1944, this is the first UK edition, first impression of 1973. Some slight edge wear and chipping to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly rubbed, price clipped and price replaced with publisher's sticker (£8.50), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 319pp. In Salvador Dali's (1904-89), only novel, an international best seller written in the USA, we enter the bizarre world already familiar to us from his paintings. In rich and visual language Dali portrays the intrigues and love affairs of a group of eccentric aristocrats (a milieu that Dali longed to inhabit as of right), who, in their luxury and extravagance, symbolize decadent Europe in the 1930s. The Comte de Grandsailles and Solange de Cleda pursue an awkward love affair, but property transactions, inter war political turmoil, the French Resistance, his marriage to another woman and her responsibilities as a landowner and businesswoman drive them apart. It is variously set in Paris, rural France, Casablanca in North Africa and Palm Springs in the United States. Secondary characters include aging widow Barbara Rogers, her bisexual daughter Veronica, Veronica's sometime female lover Betka, and Baba, a disfigured US fighter pilot. The novel concludes at the end of the Second World War, with Solange dying before Grandsailles can return to his former property and reunite with her. Quite a scarce book. Seller Inventory # 010837
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition, Illustrated Edition. 1973 Peter Owen Hardcover 1st Edition 1st impression. Near fine in near fine jacket, design & illustrations by Dali as shown. Dust Jacket clipped by Publisher. Seller Inventory # ABE-10259176099
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