Dalí - Vol. 2 - Gala

Book excerpt: Summer 1929. Salvador Dalí has made it! His paintings show in Paris galleries. His first film, with Luis Buñuel, has shocked the bourgeoisie. He’s charmed André Breton, the founder of Surrealism. But there’s one thing missing from his life: love. Dalí is a virgin, and beneath the carapace of eccentricity he’s fashioned to shield himself from gossip cowers a young man deeply terrified of sex. Naturally, he has to make things as difficult for himself as possible, namely by falling for a married woman! Gala is the wife of prominent poet Paul Éluard, whom Dalí admires. From torment and suffering comes love...