Books: Dry Martini

MY LAST SIGH by Luis Buñuel Translated by Abigail Israel Knopf; 256 pages; $15.95

He began his first film, Un Chien Andalou (1928), by walking onto a moon-flooded balcony and calmly slitting a young woman's eye. He began his last film, That Obscure Object of Desire (1977), by replacing his leading lady with two actresses who alternated scenes in the same role. For Luis Buñuel, the Spanish film maker who died this July at 83, conventions of content and form were mere pieties, best approached with a straight razor and a straight face. He...

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