Ian Gibson

Pandia looked down at the book in her hand. Then as if he could not wait for her answer Lord Silvester asked: "Have you thought about me?" "It would be... difficult to think of anything... else." "That is what I hoped," he said. "Your face is always before my eyes, and even when you are not there I feel you beside me." He paused, then he said: "Look at me! I want to see your eyes! I want them to tell me what you think." The way he spoke made Pandia quiver, and once again the flicker of fire was there. She knew as they moved within her that she wanted him to kiss her, and she was afraid when he looked into her eyes that he would know exactly what she desired. Very slowly she obeyed him because it was impossible to do anything else. As she raised her eyes to his she was spellbound. She could see the fire blazing within him, and as something wild and wonderful leapt within her, she was drawn to him as if by a magical power that was irresistible....

"En este libro imprescindible para los admiradores de Lorca y los enamorados de Granada, Ian Gibson guía al lector en un paseo por los lugares y rincones más emblemáticos de la ciudad y su entorno al tiempo que va iluminando la relación del genial poeta con cada uno de ellos. El autor -uno de los mayores expertos en la figura de Lorca- evoca en estas páginas la infancia del escritor en la Vega de Granada, las visitas a la Alhambra en compañía de Manuel de Falla y las tertulias celebradas en sus cafés y tabernas preferidos. Recrea los aspectos del Albaicin que aparecen retratados en la poesía lorquiana y las cuevas del Sacromonte que inspiraron el Romancero gitano. Todo ello sin olvidar las costumbres, coplas o leyendas que Lorca trasladó de la tradición granadina a su obra tanto lírica como teatral."

For Ian Gibson, the key to understanding Dali lies in the powerful and little-understood emotion of shame. But this is no one-dimensional study. In Madrid as a young art student, Dali made his mark, launching his career in a triumphant show of early works, some in the Cubist mode and others that he termed "realistic." Madrid figured critically in Dali's career in other ways. It was there that he met the future film director Luis Bunuel, with whom he would soon collaborate, and the charismatic writer Federico Garcia Lorca, with whom an intimacy developed that would only deepen Dali's sexual confusion. Among the many artists who influenced the young Dali were two Spaniards living in Paris: Picasso, whom Dali met at his studio during a hectic visit to Paris, and Joan Miro, a fellow Catalan who took Dali under his wing. It was film, not paintings, that plunged Dali into the surrealist vortex in Paris: his collaboration with Bunuel on the violent and bizarre Un Chien andalou. It led to a successful exhibition of his paintings in Paris, paintings at least as shocking in their imagery as the film. Soon after, Dali found aristocratic patrons for his work and, more importantly, the enigmatic, libidinous Gala, a Russian emigre whose marriage Dali broke up and with whom he subsequently lived in unconsummated bliss - and fright. Their life together forms a tragicomic epic that Gibson follows from Paris back to Spain and on to New York and California where Dali is embraced by Hollywood and some of its most prominent players - Alfred Hitchcock, Clark Gable, and Bob Hope, among them. Rollickingly funny adventures alternate with scandalous episodes of self-promotion, and, as Dali slips into a long decline, Gibson dramatically reveals how the great exploiter became victimized by people all too eager to prey on his lust for recognition and riches. Abundantly illustrated with thirty-eight full-color plates and over one hundred black-and-white pictures. The Shameful Life of Salvador Dali brings the artist vividly before us through Gibson's interviews with some of those closest to Dali and his extensive exploration of recently discovered sources in addition to Dali's voluminous correspondence, novels, poems, and essays.

Adaptación gráfica de la biografía sobre Federicio García Lorca publicada originalmente por Ian GIbson bajo el título Federico García Lorca: Una vida.

Investigación histórica sobre el asesinato de Calvo Sotelo (1893-1936).

Fictionalized account of the life of Nicaraguan poet, Ruben Dario, presented as Dario speaking posthumously through a medium and describing his tormented and fascinating life.