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Dali's Autobiography
Lazarus, H. P. | February 6, 1943 issue

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The article discusses autobiography of Spanish painter Salvador Dali. In "The Secret Life of Salvador Dali," Dali calls his book his "secret life" because he has created a substitute for his real life, from which he divorced himself on grounds of incompatibility. His secret fife lacks reality. He has turned the whole world into himself in what is perhaps the greatest feat of willed obscurantism of the times. He begins and ends with himself. Nothing ever happens except what he calls his "pathological flashes." One reads his 400 pages vainly searching through reel after reel of falsification for some evidence of simple human truth.

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AUTOBIOGRAPHIES; AUTOBIOGRAPHY; DALI, Salvador, 1904-1989; LITERATURE; AUTHORS; WRITING
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