On his favorite subjecthimselfSalvador Dali writes at least as vividly as he paints. In the French monthly La Table Ronde, Dali adds to the autobiographical score by giving his own account of why he was booted out of the "official" surrealist group in the early '40s.
"I was too surrealistic," says Dali. One of his paintings, he recalls, showed Lenin with a buttock three meters long, propped up by a crutch. Dali had hoped to shock and impress his fellow surrealists, but they were bored. Dali then turned his artistic attention to Adolf Hitler:
"I was obsessed to the point of delirium with...
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