My last sigh
By: Luis Buñuel ; translated by Abigail Israel.
Edition: 1st Vintage Books ed.
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 1984
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Buñuel, Luis, 1900-; Motion picture producers and directors -- Spain -- Biography.
First sentence: During the last ten years of her life, my mother gradually lost her memory.
Description: Luis Bu&#241;uel, one of the greatest film directors of all time, the father of surrealist cinema, writes lyrically and passionately about his middle-class boyhood in the provincial Spanish town; his residence as an engineering student in Madrid, where he began to find his way into the surrealist movement of the twenties; his pilgrimage to Paris, home of surrealism; his association with Max Ernst, Picasso, and Andr&#233; Breton; and his involvement in the Spanish Civil War.   But Above all the book is, of course, about Bu&#241;uel&#8217;s long and distinguished cinematic career. (back cover copy)
Notes: Translation of: Mon dernier soupir.
Table of contents: title: Memory, 3; title: Remembrances from the Middle Ages, 7; title: The Drums of Calanda, 19; title: Saragossa, 22; title: Conchita&#8217;s Memories, 34; title: Earthly Delights, 41; title: Madrid&#8212;The Residencia (1917&#8211;1925), 51; title: Paris (1925&#8211;1929); title: Dreams and Reveries, 92; title: Surrealism (1929&#8211;1933), 101; title: America, 127; title: Spain and France (1931&#8211;1936); title: Love and Love Affiars, 146; title: The Civil War (1936&#8211;1939), 150; title: Still an Atheist . . . Thank God!, 171; title: Back to America, 177; title: Hollywood Sequel, 177; title: Mexico (1946&#8211;1961), 188; title: Pro and Con, 217; title: From Spain to Mexico to France (1960&#8211;1977), 232; title: Swan Song, 251