Oui: The Paranoid-Critical Revolution : Writings 1927-1933

Dalì's meditations on art and the "paranoid-critical method," plus poems and more

Salvador Dalì's writings from the period in which he was most closely allied with the Surrealists have never before been translated into English. These short fictions, essays and poems contain all the egotistic brio one might expect from Dalì, but they also reveal an earnest and even sentimental artist. They document Dalì's friendships with fellow Spaniards Luis Buñuel and Federico Garcìa Lorca, his entry into the world of the Parisian Surrealists, his passion for the emerging arts of photography and cinema, and the development of his "Paranoid-Critical Method," the theoretical basis for Dalì's work throughout his life. In 1934, Dalì and André Breton would break forever-"The only difference between me and a Surrealist is that I am a Surrealist," he later said-but in the period 1927-33, such distinctions were unnecessary.