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.

Publisher Review

‘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

‘So full of visual invention, so witty, so charged with an almost Dickensian energy that it’s difficult not to accept the author’s own arrogant valuation of himself as a genius’ – 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