Bunuel_Luis_My_Last_Breath

Parisian newspapers "protesting indignantly" and claiming that I'dbeen the victim of an infamous bourgeois plot. (A few papers actuallypublished the letter.)In addition, I'd written a prologue to the scenario for both journalsin which I stated that the film was nothing more or less than apublic call to assassination.A while later, I suggested that we burn the negative on the placedu Tertre in Montmartre, something I would have done withouthesitation had the group agreed. In fact, I'd still do it today; I canimagine a huge pyre in my own little garden where all my negativesand all the copies of my films go up in flames. It wouldn't make theslightest difference. (Curiously, however, the surrealists vetoed mysuggestion. )When I think back on the surrealists as individuals, I seeBenjamin Pkret as the quintessential surrealist poet; his workseems to flow freely, untrammeled by any cultural effort, from ahidden source of inspiration, spontaneously recreating a wholly newand different world. In 1929, Dali and I used to read from LeGrand Jeu and weep with laughter. When I joined the group,Pkret was in Brazil representing the Trotskyist movement; buthe was soon expelled from the country, and I met him on hisreturn. Our most frequent encounters, however, came in Mexicoafter the war. While I was making Gran casino (En el uiejo Tampico),Pkret came to ask for work; I tried to help him, but Imyself was in dire straits at the time. He was living in MexicoCity with the painter Remedies Varo, whose work I thought asgood as Max Ernst's. Pkret was a pure and uncompromisingsurrealist, and most of the time he was very hard up.I remember, too, showing the group some photographs of Dali'spaintings (including my portrait), but they were received with onlymoderate enthusiasm. When they saw the paintings themselves,however, they changed their minds and instantly welcomed him intothe group. Breton adored Dali's "paranoia critique" theory, and theyhad an excellent relationship; but it wasn't long before Gala's influ-