At the age of 37, Salvador Dali wrote his autobiography. Titled The Secret Life of Salvador Dali, the Spanish painter portrays his childhood, his student days in Madrid, and the early years of his fame in Paris up to his leaving to go to the USA in 1940. The exactness of his descriptions are doubtful in more than one place. Dates are very often incorrect, and many childhood experiences fit too perfectly into the story of his life. As Dali had studiously read the works of Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank, his autobiography like his painting, is imbued with applied psychoanalysis. The anecdotes, memories, and dreams that comprise Dali's autobiography were, one suspects, deliberately chosen.

At the age of 37, Salvador Dali wrote his autobiography. Titled The Secret Life of Salvador Dali, the Spanish painter portrays his childhood, his student days in Madrid, and the early years of his fame in Paris up to his leaving to go to the USA in 1940. The exactness of his descriptions are doubtful in more than one place. Dates are very often incorrect, and many childhood experiences fit too perfectly into the story of his life. As Dali had studiously read the works of Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank, his autobiography like his painting, is imbued with applied psychoanalysis. The anecdotes, memories, and dreams that comprise Dali"s autobiography were, one suspects, deliberately chosen.

The Public Secret of Salvador Dali

The Years of the King:Childhood and Adolescence in Figueras

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From Outsider to Dandy:The Student Years in Madrid

A Friendship in Veres and Still-Life:Dali and Garcia Lorca

The Cut Eye:Dali and Bunuel

Gala：or The Healing Gradiva:The Surrealist Years in Paris

The Pictures behind the Pictures:Paranoia as Method

Between Worlds:First Successes in America

Break out into Tradition:The Renaissance of the Universal Genius

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Metamorphosis to Divine:The Time of Honour and Riches