Resumen de La Metamorfosis de Narciso de Dalí, ¿una ruptura con la tradición clásica o una reinterpretación ingeniosa del relato de Ovidio?
The article proposes a reconsideration of the Metamorphosis of Narcissus by Salvador Dalí which focuses on the issue of the relationship between Dalí�s treatment of the theme and the myth of Narcissus as depicted in Ovid�s Metamorphoses. Although at first glance, the revolutionary surrealist painting owes little to the story of the beautiful Boeotian youth as presented by Ovid, the iconographical analysis nevertheless reveals Dalí�s profound interest in Metamorphoses. Using the paranoiac-critical method Dalí creates an original visual interpretation of metamorphosis based on Ovid�s description of Narcissus� death with details that are lacking in other classical (or later) sources.
