Dals meditations on art and the paranoidcritical method plus poems and moreSalvador Dals writings from the period in which he was most closely allied with the Surrealists have never before been translated into English. These short fictions essays and poems contain all the egotistic brio one might expect from Dal but they also reveal an earnest and even sentimental artist. They document Dals friendships with fellow Spaniards Luis Buuel and Federico Garca Lorca his entry into the world of the Parisian Surrealists his passion for the emerging arts of photography and cinema and the development of his ParanoidCritical Method the theoretical basis for Dals work throughout his life. In 1934 Dal and Andr Breton would break foreverThe only difference between me and a Surrealist is that I am a Surrealist he later saidbut in the period 192733 such distinctions were unnecessary.