謹慎跨界｜畫家達利的唯一一本小說創作

試問，如果你看到一本書，是超現實主義畫家達利的唯一一本創作，是否會有閱讀的慾望呢？我想大家對於達利的超現實主義繪畫，他的夢境、戰爭等等都比較熟悉，更可能直接想到的就是👇

這幅達利的1931年的畫作已經算是超現實主義的經典了。至少，我看到達利，想到的就是這幅畫。

不過，在今年，我讀了一本書，其中提到了達利的「謬斯」——達利太太，而她則是一個拋夫棄女的女人，於是，被彙集在了《拋棄孩子的母親們》這本書裡。也是從這本書讓我認識到，達利夫婦雖然出名之後富可敵國，達利太太卻從來沒有管過自己跟前夫生的女兒，更沒有給她留下任何遺產。達利也沒有對這個繼女有過任何的關注，遑論幫助了。

在這樣的情況下，我還是懷著批判的態度拿起了達利的這本跨界的小說。小說題為《Hidden Faces》。說實話，如果這本書是一本thriller，應該可以很好看的，誰成想，達利把它寫成了慘不忍睹的車禍現場。

這本書用封底上的話來說是，「in swirling prose」⋯⋯確實讀起來讓人頭暈眼花，寫的是些貴族的故事，無論開篇還是中間，都有不盡其煩的對景物和周邊的描寫，好像達利很確信自己的文字描述出來的東西跟看畫的觀者等同，這究竟是考慮到讀者的感受還是沒考慮到呢？

達利對於語言的堆砌顯得幼稚而巧柔，但他卻信心滿滿，覺得捨我其誰。下面，摘錄幾處他自己對自己這部作品的「前言」，博一笑可置之。

Sooner or later everyone is bound to come to me! Some, untouched by my painting, concede that I draw like Leonardo. Others, who quarrel with my aesthetics, agree in considering my autobiography one of the "human documents" of the period. Still others, questioning the 'authenticity' of my Secret Life, have discovered in me literary gifts superior to the skill which I reveal in my pictures, and to what they call the mystification of my confessions. But as far back as in 1922 the great poet Garcia Lorca had predicted that I was destined for a literary career and had suggested that my future lay precisely in the 'pure novel'.

Why did I write this novel?

First, because I have time to do everything I want to do, and I wanted to write it. 

Second, because contemporary history offers a unique framework for a novel dealing with the development and the conflicts of great human passions, and because the story of the war, and more particularly of the poignant post-war period, had inevitable to be written. 

Third, because if I had not written it another would have done it in my place, and would have done it badly. 

這只是我截取的一點點他自己寫的前言，👆再讀一遍first和third，如果還有慾望試試達利的大作，請便🤣

當然，本書獻給gala，那個拋棄孩子的母親——

I dedicate this novel to Gala, who was constantly by my side while I was writing it, who was the good fairy of my equilibrium, who banished the salamanders of my doubts and strengthened the lions of my certainties... To Gala, who by her nobility of soul has inspired me and served as a mirror reflecting the purest geometries of the aesthetic of the emotions that has guided my work. 

That Gala.