Let us agree, Federico Garcia Lorca wrote, that one of man s most beautiful postures is that of St. Sebastian.
In my Saint Sebastian I remember you, Salvador Dali replied to Garcia Lorca, referring to the essay on aesthetics that Dali had just written, . . . and sometimes I think he "is" you. Let s see whether Saint Sebastian turns out to be you.
This exchange is but a glimpse into the complex relationship between two renowned and highly influential twentieth-century artists. On the centennial of Dali's birth, "Sebastian s Arrows" presents a never-before-published collection of their...

Salvador Dali's writings from the period in which he was most closely allied with the Surrealists have never before been translated into English. These short fictions, essays and poems contain all the egotistic brio one might expect from Dali, but they also reveal an earnest and even sentimental artist. They document Dali's friendships with fellow Spaniards Luis Bunuel and Federico Garcia Lorca, his entry into the world of the Parisian Surrealists, his passion for the emerging arts of photography and cinema, and the development of his -Paranoid-Critical Method, - the theoretical basis for...