The first edition for Bulgaria of “Alice in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll with illustrations by Salvador Dali enters the bookstores. The sensational project was carried out by the “List” publishing house, which obtained the rights for the reproductions after nearly three years of negotiations. “The edition is exceptional, we also ordered a special paper for it, which comes closest to the original book,” announced Gergana Dimitrova – editor-in-chief of “List”.
The 144-page volume comes in a 16.5 x 23.5 cm hardcover format. The magnificent translation of Lazar Goldman, with which several generations of readers have loved Alice’s adventures, is used.
The ingenious surrealist created 12 heliogravures – one for each chapter of the book for a limited edition, published in 1969 in a circulation of 2,700 copies. In them Dali inserted images and messages from his most famous works.
For example, for Alice he used the image from “Landscape with a Girl Jumping on a Rope”, which symbolizes the memory of a happy childhood, and the iconic clock from “The Persistence of Memory” runs at the Mad Hatter’s tea party.
The idea of combining the fantastic world of Lewis Carroll and the surrealist visions of the Spaniard was born in the head of one of the editors of the Random House publishing house. The eccentric Dalí embraces her with joy and realizes in short order. As of today, all the heliogravures signed by him are in private collections. The copies of the first edition – also.
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