The diary of one genius

“Diary of one genius” (Fr. “Journal d"un Genie”)-the peculiar memoirs of Salvador Dali, written by the artist from 1952 to 1963 and published in Paris in 1964. At this time, they were already famous for the world famous, and his new book is both a creative manifesto, and an attempt to explain or even justify the image of a “genuine genius of modernity” in the eyes of the public, which had the misfortune to be born in the “era of almost dwarfs”. The full text of the diary is enriched with the marginal applications provided for by the author himself for the first edition: "Science of Bzumum", "Praise of Fly", "Dalian mysticism ...", as well as a comparative table of the advantages of artists of the past and future