{"id":19001,"date":"2019-01-24T01:03:15","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T01:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=19001"},"modified":"2019-01-24T01:03:15","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T01:03:15","slug":"salvador-dalis-maze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2019\/01\/24\/salvador-dalis-maze\/","title":{"rendered":"Salvador Dal\u00ed’s Maze"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Maurice Yves Sandoz (1892\u20131958) was a Swiss composer and writer who published a handful of works of fantastic fiction, none of which are especially well-known today. One of these, a novel entitled Le Labyrinthe<\/em> (1945), will be familiar to most people via the film version directed by William Cameron Menzies in 1953,\u00a0Menzies’ final effort in a chequered directing career. The Maze<\/em> is a low-budget horror film that was shot in 3-D, and which works well for the most part, at least until its rather absurd ending. I hadn’t heard about the novel until a recent conversation with the knowledgeable Mr\u00a0TjZ during which he mentioned that Salvador Dal\u00ed had illustrated Sandoz’s novel when it was republished by Doubleday, Doran in 1945. Dal\u00ed illustrated a number of novels throughout his career but The Maze<\/em> is one of the few original works (as opposed to a reprint of a classic), the fruit of Sandoz’s social connections with the art world. 1945 was the year that Dal\u00ed’s brand of Surrealism was fully embraced by America\u2014he was working on Hitchcock’s Spellbound<\/em> at this time\u2014so it’s surprising that Sandoz’s novel isn’t better known. Dal\u00ed also provided illustrations for two collections of Sandoz’s short stories: Fantastic Memories<\/em> (1944) and On the Verge<\/em> (1950).<\/p>\n

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I haven’t seen a copy of the novel so the illustrations here are no doubt wrongly sequenced. Secondhand copies of the Dal\u00ed Sandoz titles aren’t as expensive as you’d imagine so I’m tempted to track down copies. I’m also curious to know how the novel compares to the film. Thanks to TjZ for the tip!<\/p>\n

(And having written the above, I notice from my tags for the post that I’d linked to copies of the short story illustrations in a weekend posting several years ago. Among other things, this blog is a useful memory jolt. But The Maze<\/em> was definitely news.)<\/p>\n

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Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 Dal\u00ed in New York<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Secret Life of Edward James<\/a>
\n\u2022 Ren\u00e9 Magritte by David Wheatley<\/a>
\n\u2022 Dal\u00ed’s discography<\/a>
\n\u2022 Soft Self-Portrait of Salvador Dal\u00ed<\/a>
\n\u2022 Mongolian impressions<\/a>
\n\u2022 Hello Dali!<\/a>
\n\u2022 Dirty Dal\u00ed<\/a>
\n\u2022 Impressions de la Haute Mongolie revisited<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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