© Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí - 2026
© Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí - 2026

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Número de catàleg raonat OG:
OG 019
Propietari:
Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí
Ens dipositari:
Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí
Fons:
Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres

The book Grains et Issues – subtitled Rêve Expérimental – by the Romanian poet Tristan Tzara (1896–1963), one of the founders of the Dada movement, was published in Paris by Les Éditions Denoël et Steele. According to the colophon, the book was printed on 20 February 1935, at the Imprimerie Charles Bulens. The volume includes a frontispiece by Salvador Dalí, reproduced in rotogravure and etching on the first fifteen copies, and a dedication on the half-title page to Louis Broder, a prominent figure in the publishing world of the time. Analogous to Dalí’s paranoiac-critical method, Tzara proposes that delusional activity should consciously replace poetic inspiration. In his narrative, the author describes ‘a lyrical superstructure, whose elements derive from the structure itself and which, as soon as it is realised, acts upon this from the height of its newfound power. It knows how to develop its virulence at times, to the point of undermining the meaning of this structure, corrupting it, raising it up, and destroying it in its essence’. Tzara’s text finds its visual counterpart in Dalí’s print, whose accelerated rhythm recalls the drawings he made during his first visit to the United States in November 1934. However, the destructive undertone perceived in the work is consonant with the European climate of the time, to which Tzara also alludes in his text. __________ (1) See p. 213. (2) TZARA, Tristan. Grains et issues − Rêve expérimental. Paris : Denoël et Steele, 1935, p. 210.

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