Self-mythology is as important as factual recollection in Salvador Dalí’s memoirs and diaries. The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí is an extravagant autobiography full of childhood memories, artistic ambition, sex, money and deliberate myth-making, while Diary of a Genius records later reflections on painting, fame and his own sense of exceptional importance. His writings are not reliable documentary accounts in a straightforward sense; exaggeration, performance and provocation are part of the method. Illustrated editions and contextual notes help distinguish artistic ideas from cultivated legend. The most useful shelf associations are Surrealism, artists’ memoirs, twentieth-century art history and primary-source writing about artistic identity and self-invention. Read more Less
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