Alice through the brush of Salvador Dali

Alice in Wonderland” – the classic work of Lewis Carroll, is published in Bulgaria for the first time with illustrations by the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dali. The edition is published by “List” publishing house. The artwork is by Milena Valnarova.

Negotiations to obtain the rights to the reproductions of the sensational artist lasted nearly three years. “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 volume of 144 pages is published in a format of 16.5 x 23.5 cm with hard covers. It will be sold for 39 BGN. The classic translation of Lazar Goldman, with which several generations of readers have loved Alice’s adventures, is used.

The eccentric artist 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 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 The 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 embraced it in a short time. Today, all the heliogravures signed by him are in private collections from the first edition – also”, the “List” reports.

Salvador Dali was born on May 11, 1904. A prominent surrealist, he is the author of world-renowned works in the fields of painting, graphics, sculpture, jewelry, films and books. The artistic skills in his works are attributed to the influence and admiration of the Renaissance masters. His eccentricity is well known. He painted over 1,500 paintings. He is also the author of illustrations for many books. He also makes graphics, lithographs, jewelry, sculptures, theater and film sets, designs clothes, etc. Died January 23, 1989.

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Lewis Carroll was an English writer, mathematician, philosopher and photographer born on January 27, 1832. His birth name was Charles Latwidge Dodgson. He changed it because he wanted to present himself as a children’s author, since he was a mathematics teacher at Oxford. His most famous works are Alice in Wonderland (1865) and Alice in the Looking Glass (1871). Both parts were written about a real girl that Carol met when she was four years old. The girl’s name is Alice and she is the daughter of the dean of the college where she teaches. Died of pneumonia on January 14, 1898.