Author: Salvador Dalí
Book title: Diario de un Genio [D-ahrior deh oon hennio] (Diary of a Genius)
Narrator: Vesna Jaćimović [Vesna Yatchimovich]
Duration: 6 hours and 15 minutes
No. of pages in black print: 174
Publisher: Areté [Areh-teh]
Place and year of publishing: Belgrade, 2021
About the book:
Diario de un Genio [D-ahrior deh oon hennio] (Diary of a Genius) is a collection of Salvador Dalí’s diaries and memoirs covering the period from 1952 to 1963. This inspiring book reveals astonishing and intimate details from the life of the most controversial artist of the 20th century.
Through Dalí’s honest, insightful and occasionally shocking observations about art and society, one can learn a lot about the philosophy behind his paintings, but also about what makes a genius.
There is no doubt that this book is rightly called one of the most important texts of surrealism.