Who would the genius Salvador Dali be without the love and muse of his life?
"Without love, without Gala, I would not be a Dali. This is the truth that I will not stop shouting to the world, that I will not stop living. It is my blood, my oxygen." - Salvador Dali
Gala is no longer just a muse. She's not just a woman. Gala is finally a novel. The story of an unconventional woman who left her native Russia for Paris in her youth because she believed in her exceptional destiny and her ability to recognize and develop the genius of the man next to her. She was guided to do so by the tarot, whose interpretation she had followed all her life. This is why the novel is structured into 22 chapters with titles based on the tarot cards of the Major Arcana.
After her marriage to the future avant-garde poet Paul Éluard, the ambitious Elena Dimitrievna Diakonova, known as Gala Dali, discovered the magic of eroticism and sex and the power of controlling others. A long line of men passed through her bedroom, including the German expressionist painter Max Ernst. They were as different as night and day, were of different ages and backgrounds, painters, Writers, nobles, plebeians, rich and poor alike. Marriage was necessary for her for social and economic reasons, but fidelity was not an option.
The moment she met Salvador Dali, one of the future greats of modern art, she immediately knew that her life's role was by his side. She left her husband and daughter and became an indispensable inspiration and a fundamental phenomenon in the formation of an exceptional artist.
