Dalí as writer: construction of memory

In this article I analyze Daíì's writing and his construction of memory paying attention to The Secret Life, a book that cannot be read as a reconstruction of the memory like is the case of other texts of remembrance. It is a hinged text that is used to move away from the past and prepare the future. Doesn’t matter with what perspective you look at it, it disguises, it “constructs”, it uses the third person to talk about himself. He constructs a work, a “documentary” that has to be remembered one more time “There are real events, or similar to real events, therefore enigmatic, incoherents, irrational, absurd, without explanation.”. This brings us closer to some of the nuclei of this work and the complex and contradictory life. The double mask (voice and written word) suggests the impersonation of the word written by the voice. It is the mask behind in which he hides in a movement of impersonations that leads him to infinity. When we read Dalí, we don’t notice only the text, but we “hear” his voice. His writing is phonetic, because one has to read it out loud in order to understand it. It does not materialized in the page but in the act of saying it, of acting in it. It is in a diction maneuver, of creation of hypnagogic images through phonetic associations, when many of his texts make sense.