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The book is a translation into Catalan by Teresa Costa-Gramunt and Oriol Pi de Cabanyes of the 1954 first Spanish edition published in Barcelona in \u00a0\u00a0by \u00a0Jos\u00e9 Jan\u00e9s.<\/p>\n<p>This last work by one of the greatest theoreticians of the Noucentisme movement shows us once again the multi-facetted and heterogeneous character of Salvador Dal\u00edas a book illustrator. Dal\u00ed created the four illustrations that appear in the book: one on the dustjacket, one in the frontispiece and two inside the book. All of them were clearly intended to exalt the figure of L\u00eddia, the Cadaqu\u00e9s fishseller who believed herself to be Teresa, the main character of the work <em>La Ben Plantada<\/em>, by Eugenio d&#8217;Ors.<\/p>\n<p>Dal\u00ed, like Lorca and Bu\u00f1uel, professed great admiration for this unusual personality. In The <em>Secret Life of Salvador Dal\u00ed<\/em> he wrote: &#8220;L\u00eddia is possessed of the most magnificent paranoic brain, apart from my own, that I have ever come across&#8221;. And just as he did in the case of Gala &#8211; though naturally on a much lesser scale &#8211; he publicly acknowledged this fondness and fascination, as we can appreciate in some of the pictures he made for the book.<\/p>\n<p>The illustration in the frontispiece depicts an olive tree woman &#8220;Of fine bearing, and well-rooted in the living rock, in the pure mineralogy [&#8230;] so that no gale could uproot her from Cap de Creus&#8221;, as the painter describes L\u00eddia in a manuscript kept at the Centre for Dalinien Studies \u00a0of the Gala-Salvador Dal\u00ed Foundation. It is signed Gala Dal\u00ed, dated 1954 and bears the following \u00a0dedication : &#8220;To Lidia, who sheltered us eternally in Portlligat&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>One of the illustrations inside the book is a clear allusion to the classification L\u00eddia used to make of the inhabitants of Cadaqu\u00e9s: &#8220;the good people&#8221; in whom she could trust and whom she called &#8220;The Society of the Secret of X\u00e8nius&#8221; (which included the Dal\u00ed family and the Pichots), and the &#8220;bad people&#8221;, \u00a0that is to say the other people in the village who were for her &#8220;The Society of Goats and Anarchists&#8221;. Signed and dated like the previous illustration, Dal\u00ed wrote on it: &#8220;The enemies of Lidia &#8216;goats and anarchists'&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But who in fact was this woman to whom nobody felt indifferent? L\u00eddia Noguer i Sab\u00e0 was the daughter of the woman known as &#8220;Sabana&#8221;. She was considered to be one of the last witches of Cadaqu\u00e9s, and ran a boarding house for some time. Her house was used by personalities as illustrious as Picasso and Puig i Cadafalch. In 1904 she met Eugenio d&#8217;Ors, during a short stay the young intellectua<em>l <\/em>made in Cadaqu\u00e9s. From this meeting was to arise the admiration that \u00a0became the great obsession of L\u00eddia. When d&#8217;Ors wrote his La Ben Plantada in 1911, L\u00eddia immediately identified with Teresa -she sometimes even claimed that that was in fact her name &#8211; and the fascination she felt for the writer became more obsessive, finally degenerating into a progressive delirious madness. She went to the extremes of interpreting the articles he wrote for the daily column ( and entitled \u00a0&#8220;My glossary&#8221;) in La Veu de Catalunya. L\u00eddia would read them and reread them continuously, since she saw \u00a0them as \u00a0the replies to the letters she had sent to the writer.<\/p>\n<p>It was not until seven years after L\u00eddia&#8217;s death, however, that Eugenio d&#8217;Ors showed a real interest in her, for he went to Cadaqu\u00e9s in the company of Ces\u00e1reo Rodr\u00edguez-Aguilera with the intention of gathering information about that woman who had sent him so many missives to which he had never replied. It was then that he asked Salvador Dal\u00ed if he would like to be the author of the pictures that were to illustrate his book <em>La verdadera historia de Lidia de Cadaqu\u00e9s<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Dal\u00ed, who at that time was also planning to write a book about L\u00eddia, was enthused by the idea. The relationship between L\u00eddia and Dal\u00ed had in fact started very early on. As a young boy the painter would listen to the stories she would tell the children of Cadaqu\u00e9s. And when in 1929, the artist decided to set up home with Gala in Cadaqu\u00e9s, against the wishes of his father, L\u00eddia was the only person who helped him and sold the couple the fisherman&#8217;s cabin in Portlligat which her two sons used to stow their fishing equipment. This was the place that was to become the only permanent residence of the Dal\u00ed couple upon their return from the United States at the end of 1948, and is the abode which now forms part of the &#8220;Dal\u00ed triangle&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 12 April 2002, beneath the dome of the Dal\u00ed Theatre-Museum of \u00a0Figueres, \u00a0took place the presentation of the book La veritable hist\u00f2ria de la L\u00eddia de Cadaqu\u00e9s (The True Story of Lidia de Cadaqu\u00e9s) by Eugenio d&#8217;Ors, \u00a0illustrated by Salvador Dal\u00ed. 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