Hidden Faces
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Good , price clipped
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A surrealist novel as dazzling and disorienting as the paintings of its creator, Hidden Faces chronicles the decadent lives of a group of French aristocrats and socialites in the years leading up to and through World War II. Salvador Dalí constructs a world of obsessive desire, erotic longing, and psychological intensity, weaving together the fates of characters whose passions are as ornate and distorted as a dreamscape. The narrative unfolds with the same hallucinatory precision that defines Dalí's visual art, presenting love and war not as opposites but as twin expressions of humanity's deepest, most irrational drives. Rich with Surrealist imagery and philosophical provocation, the novel illustrates how beauty, destruction, and transformation are inextricably bound — a theme Dalí pursues with theatrical, unapologetic extravagance. Published in 1944, Hidden Faces stands as a singular artifact: a master visual artist's bold, uncompromising venture into literary fiction.
Author: Salvador Dalí
Format: Hardback
Published: 1973, Peter Owen · London
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Good , price clipped
Markings: No markings
A surrealist novel as dazzling and disorienting as the paintings of its creator, Hidden Faces chronicles the decadent lives of a group of French aristocrats and socialites in the years leading up to and through World War II. Salvador Dalí constructs a world of obsessive desire, erotic longing, and psychological intensity, weaving together the fates of characters whose passions are as ornate and distorted as a dreamscape. The narrative unfolds with the same hallucinatory precision that defines Dalí's visual art, presenting love and war not as opposites but as twin expressions of humanity's deepest, most irrational drives. Rich with Surrealist imagery and philosophical provocation, the novel illustrates how beauty, destruction, and transformation are inextricably bound — a theme Dalí pursues with theatrical, unapologetic extravagance. Published in 1944, Hidden Faces stands as a singular artifact: a master visual artist's bold, uncompromising venture into literary fiction.