
Hidden Faces
Salvador Dali(Author)
Pushkin Press Classics
Published on 25. April 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
448 pages
978-1-80533-055-4 (ISBN)
Description
Salvador Dali's only novel beckons readers into the surrealist world already familiar to us from his paintings. In swirling prose, the iconic artist describes the intriguing love affairs and absurd escapades of a group of eccentric aristocrats, from the Paris riots of 1934 until the closing days of the Second World War.
Following the thwarted affair between the Comte de Grandsailles and Solange de Cleda, this is a story of mistaken identities and unfulfilled passions, brimming with wartime espionage and irrepressible decadence. In this inimitable novel, Dali's imagination and artistic vision reverberate through his characters' tangled lives.
Following the thwarted affair between the Comte de Grandsailles and Solange de Cleda, this is a story of mistaken identities and unfulfilled passions, brimming with wartime espionage and irrepressible decadence. In this inimitable novel, Dali's imagination and artistic vision reverberate through his characters' tangled lives.
Reviews / Votes
Start the first page and you are in the presence of an old-fashioned baroque novel, intelligent, extravagant, as photographically precise as his paintings -- P. J. Kavanagh * Guardian * So full of visual invention, so witty, so charged with an almost Dickensian energy * Observer * What really strikes the reader is the abounding physical detail of objects, light, spaces, and materials * The Times * Flames positively lick from Salvador Dali's pages * Harpers & Queen *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pushkin Press
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 195 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 34 mm
Weight
326 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80533-055-4 (9781805330554)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions

Persons
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) was a Spanish surrealist painter renowned for his striking, bizarre painting style that drew deeply on his explorations of the subconscious. He was strongly influenced by the writings of Sigmund Freud, as well as the Paris Surrealists who sought to establish the "greater reality" of the human subconscious over reason. Some of his most famous works include The Persistence of Memory, and the two Surrealist films Un Chien andalou (The Andalusian Dog) and L'Age d'or (The Golden Age), made with the Spanish director Luis Bunuel. Hidden Faces is his only novel, and was first published in 1944.