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The Persistence of Memory (Catalan: La persistència de la memòria, Spanish: La persistencia de la memoria) is a 1931 painting by artist Salvador Dalí and one of the most recognizable works of Surrealism.
The story portrays 1970s and 1980s South Africa through the experiences of Paul Sweetbread, a young Jewish South African with a photographic memory.The novel follows Paul coming of age in Johannesburg's Jewish northern suburbs, from his experiences in school, through his service in the South African Defence Force during the country's border war.
"The Persistence of Memory" is a short story by american writer Gael Baudino concerning Barbara, a pregnant housewife, who begins seeing things she had not noticed before when she starts doing special memory exercises developed by her husband, Frank, and the effects it has on her personal and family life.
It is a 1954 re-creation of the artist's famous 1931 work The Persistence of Memory, and measures a diminutive 25.4 × 33 cm. It was originally known as The Chromosome of a Highly coloured Fish's Eye Starting the Harmonious Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory, and first exhibited at the Carstairs Gallery in New York in 1954. [1]
A similar profile is seen in Dalí's more famous painting of two years later, The Persistence of Memory. A nude female figure (resembling Dalí's then-new muse, Gala) rises from the back of the head; this may be the masturbatory fantasy suggested by the title.
The Persistence of Memory is the name of a painting by Salvador Dalí. The Persistence of Memory may also refer to: The Persistence of Memory (novel), a novel by Tony Eprile; The Persistence of Memory (short story), a short story by Gael Baudino; The Persistence of Memory (Cosmos: A Personal Voyage), an episode of Cosmos: A Personal Voyage
In 2022, Ben Yehuda Press published a memoir by Kurzweil, The Persistence of Memory: My Father's Ukrainian Shtetl--A Holocaust Reckoning. It tells of Kurzweil's travels to the places in Eastern Europe where his family was murdered during the Holocaust, and his successful efforts to establish close relationships to the residents of those towns.
1983 National Poetry Series, for The Persistence of Memory; Work. Fell, Mary (1983). The Persistence of Memory. Random House. ISBN ...
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