Word: bunuel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...AUTOBIOGRAPHY My Last Sigh, Luis Bunuel, the father of the surrealist cinema, remarks that the one unifying principle of his first film, "Un Chien D'andalou," was that "no idea or image that might lend itself to a rational explanation of any kind would be accepted." In telling his life story, Bunuel likewise rejects interpretation. His memoirs are a rambling collection of disparate reveries, images, jokes, each of them entirely absorbing. Bunuel does not draw upon these to form conclusions of any sort, to make aesthetic judgements or to evaluate the importance of various events in the development...
What we glean of a family history suggests an atmosphere of caprice and superfluity conducive to the formation of a surrealist temperament. Bunuel's father, a successful businessman whom Bunuel describes as a man of extreme leisure ("the only thing my father would carry in the street was his elegantly wrapped jar of caviar"), seems to have had a surrealist's sense of humor. Bunuel grew up in "a very large and bourgeois apart-grew up in "a very large and bourgeois apart-10 balconies and took up the entire second floor of the building." While this spawning ground...
...countryside. He describes the village of Saragossa as one ritualized by religion, habit, and ignorance and therefore of exquisite spiritual temperament. ("At the age of 12 I still believed that babies came from Paris--not via a stork, of course, but simply by train or car"). The stories of Bunuel's childhood establish an atmosphere and a series of preoccupations that one can pursue at leisure through his films. Many of them touch upon the Catholic horror of sexuality, which Bunuel sees as rooted in the fact that "in a rigidly hierarchical society, sex--which respects no barriers and obeys...
...interested in the relationship between the image on the screen and reality," Fanger explains Bunuel's surrealism has had a substantial influence on Fuentes's prose style, Soto-Duggan added...
Fuentes, who told. The Crimson in 1981 "I must write," has penned ten novels, three plays, and a host of critical essays, including commentary on Melville, Faulkner, Bunuel, and Genet. His first novel, "Where the Air is Clear," appeared...