"In this 'deceptively simple and candidly devious' [The New Republic] autobiography, Luis Buñuel, one of the greatest film directors of all time, the father of surrealist cinema, writes lyrically and passionately about his middle-class boyhood in a 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 Marx Ernst, Picasso, and André Breton; and his involvement in the Spanish Civil War. But above all the book is, of course, about Buñuel's long and distinguished cinematic career - about the masterpieces : The Exterminating Angel, Viridiana, Belle de Jour, Tristana, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, and That Obscure Object o f Desire - and about the people with whom his career brought him together, from García Lorca, Salvador Dali, and Fritz Lang, to William Wyler, Alfred Hitchcock and Jeanne Moreau." -- from back wrapper. Translated by Abigal Israel. Printed in black-and-white.