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is no life at all, just as an intelligence without the possibility ofexpression is not really an intelligence. Our memory is our coherence,our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.Imagine (as I often have) a scene in a film where a man tries totell a friend a story but forgets one word out of four, a simple wordlike "car" or "street" or "policeman." He stammers, hesitates, waveshis hands in the air, gropes for synonyms. Finally, his friend gets soannoyed that he slaps him and walks away. Sometimes, too, resortingto humor to ward off panic, I tell the story about the man who goesto see a psychiatrist, complaining of lapses in memory. The psychiatristasks him a couple of routine questions, and then says:"So? These lapses?""What lapses?" the man replies.Memory may be omnipotent and indispensable, but it's alsoterribly fragile. The menace is everywhere, not only from its traditionalenemy, forgetfulness, but from false memories, like my oftenrepeated story about Paul Nizan's wedding in the 1930s. The Churchof St.-Germain-des-Prks, where he was married, is crystal clear inmy mind's eye. I can see the congregation, myself among them, thealtar, the priest~even Jean-Paul Sartre, the best man. And thensuddenly, one day last year, I said to myself-but that's impossible!Nizan, a militant Marxist, and his wife, who came from a family ofagnostics, would never have been married in a church! It was categoricallyunthinkable. Did I make it up? Confuse it with otherweddings? Did I grafi a church I know well onto a story that someonetold me? Even today, I've no idea what the truth is, or what I didwith it.Our imagination, and our dreams, are forever invading ourmemories; and since we are all apt to believe in the reality of ourfantasies, we end up transforming our lies into truths. Of course,fantasy and reality are equally personal, and equally felt, so theirconfusion is a matter of only relative importance.In this semiautobiography, where I often wander from the subjectlike the wayfarer in a picaresque novel seduced by the charm of the
unexpected intrusion, the unforeseen story, certain false memorieshave undoubtedly remained, despite my vigilance. But, as I saidbefore, it doesn't much matter. I am the sum of my errors and doubtsas well as my certainties. Since I'm not a historian, I don't have anynotes or encyclopedias, yet the portrait I've drawn is wholly m inewith my affirmations, my hesitations, my repetitions and lapses, mytruths and my lies. Such is my memory.
Page 1 and 2: Luis&re delightSALMANRUSHDIE
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Page 6 and 7: MemoryDURING the last ten years of
Page 10 and 11: Remembrances from theMiddle AgesIWA
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Page 19 and 20: in San Sebastian, fertile ground fo
Page 21 and 22: as she emerges, tanned and smiling,
Page 23 and 24: directly from Calanda. Many of my c
Page 25 and 26: MY PATERNAL grandfather was known a
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Page 33 and 34: Mass, I stayed on my knees with my
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Page 37 and 38: Conchita's MemoriesABOUT twenty yea
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Page 49 and 50: good speakeasy in New York where yo
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Page 53 and 54: (his name escapes me now) who final
Page 55 and 56: The Residencia looked like the camp
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to Lenin and Trotsky. The only poli
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gafe under the pretext that certain
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eview of his latest book. Araquisth
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passioned student of literature. It
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Monte awlCampo anzuril/oPor la hnur
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Having had a good bit to drink, I g
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Fornos. The medical students knew R
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plagiarism." Something about this p
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without reservation, drink for at l
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ages until my return to Spain in 19
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I owe Gimenez Caballero a great dea
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Paris (1925 -1929)IN 1925, I learne
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er reading somewhere that it could
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offer; Picasso's mother accepted, a
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policemen coming toward us. I began
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Games. I was seized with an embarra
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would stop. For many years I argued
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With my usual abruptness, I replied
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Dreams and ReveriesF SOMEONE were t
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his face, eating very slowly and ve
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It all began with a mistake."A fant
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Waking dreams are as important, as
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Then, later, just before dessert, h
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ca blanched, closed the manuscript,
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seen a hand crawling with ants in a
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miss the premiere of the film that
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(Interestingly enough, all the surr
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Parisian newspapers "protesting ind
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published a pamphlet slandering him
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in Paris. I remember running into h
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the day, and in the evening I read
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told me that Marie-Laure and Charle
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home early, leaving me alone with m
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nothing about any of it and replied
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does us no honor; all it does is fi
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(The symbolic significance of terro
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about it, if you really want to kno
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studio except to collect my Saturda
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ing the filming ofL'Aged'or, photog
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Mexico, 1959, during the filming of
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Diary ofa Chambema
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s Angeles, 1972 (from left to right
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Taking a break during the filming o
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America 131COOPERATION. Then he sat
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AmericaI33He was getting very excit
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AmericaI35"Thalberg wants you to go
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Spain and France(1931-1936)THE bloo
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Spain and France (193 1-1 936) 139s
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Spain and France (I 93 1-1 936,; 14
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Spain and France (193 1-1 93 6) 143
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Spain and France (I 93 1-1936) 1451
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Love and Love AffairsI47loved as a
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Love and Love Affairs 149"Listen, P
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The Civil War (1936-1939)lution we'
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The Civil War (1936-1939,) 153but t
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The Civil War (1936-1939)I55The Rep
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The Civil War (19364939)I57masons a
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The Civil War (1936-1939)I59going t
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The Civil War (1936-1939)The Intern
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The Civil War (1936-1939)applying f
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The Civil War ( I 936-193 9) 165and
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The Civil War (193 6-1 939) 167plan
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The Civil War (1936-1939) 169in Cal
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Stillan A theist . . .Thank God!HAN
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Still an Atheist . . . Thank God!I7
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Still an Atheist . . . Thank God!I7
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Back to AmericaTHE year 1938 found
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Back to America 179do anything, and
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Back to America 181onstrations in t
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Back to America 183peared, Prenderg
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Back to America 185During the I~~OS
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Back to America 187I can't forgive
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Hollywood Sequel 189bing capital, H
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Hollywood Sequel 191"But you don't
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Hollywood Sequel 193The film opened
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Hollywd Sequel 195I didn't return t
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Mexico (1946-1961)IHAD so little in
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Mexico (1946-1961) 199age to reconc
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Mexico (1946-1961,) 201the painter
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Mexico (1946-1961) 20 3On the other
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Mexico (I 946-1 96 I ) 205Cocteau l
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Mexico (1946-1961) 207a man who's w
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Mexico (1946-1961) 209occurred whil
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Mexico (1946-1961) 211closed. In th
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Mexico (1946-1961) 213million peopl
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Mexico (1946-1064 215with Yves Mont
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Pro and ConHEN the surrealist movem
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Pro and Con 219his recipe for cultu
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Pro and Con 221side by side, one ma
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Pro and Con 22 3where your fantasie
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Pro and Con 22 5doice vita. To my r
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Pro and Con 227twic~Rigoletto in Lo
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Pro and Con 229other hand, my disco
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Pro and Con 231trator in Saragossa
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From Spain to Mexico to France (196
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From Spain to Mexico to France ( I
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Frm Spain to Mexico to France (1960
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swdn songCCORDING to the latest rep
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Swan Song 253changed. Until I turne
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Swan Song 255The thought of death h
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IndexCompiled by Douglas MatthewsA
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Buiiuel, LUIS [cont'dlsex, 48-9; sp
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Exterminating Angel, The (film), 53
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Markevitch, Igor, 118Marval (produc
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Seyrig, Delphine, 181,245Shoeshme (
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