Hidden faces

The hidden faces of death in love by Salvador Dali, this novel is the witness to the pre-war Europe tomb, and is read as a historical novel, its characters living scenes immersed in an aura of memories of the Romantic decline era of "Barbie Orfili, Verrill de Isle Adam" returning the English reader to "Desraile, Polar Leighton, and Oida" with their resonant aristocratic names, for their men and women with their dazzling beauty, their luxury, and their extravagance. The events of the novel, with scenes shifting from France to North Africa, Malta, the United States, then back to France, cover almost the period of the war, anticipating its end including the hallucination scene in which we see Hitler, in front of Wagnerian music, awaiting his imminent death with a magic mixed with horror.