If you want to cite this page... Literary news about Salvador Dalí in Lletra, Catalan literature online at the Open University of Catalonia.

writer. The son of a notary, he studied at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes (School of Fine Arts) in Madrid where he lodged at the Students ’ Residence and thus came into contact with the group of poets and artists of the Generation of ’27 including Federico García Lorca, with whom he had a peculiar friendship, and Luis Buñuel, with whom he made two films: Un Chien Andalou (1929) and L'Âge d’Or (1930). He was the leading figure of the surrealist adventure in Catalonia, his work being made known through reviews such as La Publicitat, Hèlix, Mirador, La Revista and L’Amic de les Arts –where he published creative and theoretical texts, the apogee of which was the Manifest groc (Yellow Manifesto, 1928), which was also signed by Lluís Montanyà and Sebastià Gasch, attacking the literature of the day and propounding a series of futurist premises based on mechanisation and sport – and, in particular, thanks to a speech he gave in the Ateneu Barcelonès (Athenaeum of Barcelona) in 1930 in which he synthesised Breton’s ideas and gave an account of his paranoic-critical method. After this, he moved to Paris where he threw himself into French surrealism, which he would slowly abandon until he definitely closed this chapter in 1950, about the time when he gave another lecture in the Athenaeum, this time announcing his newfound enthusiasm for the spiritual tradition of th