Jean Christophe Argillet here confirms Dali's much quoted remark: «The only difference between a madman and me is that I'm not mad!» With these 50 best stories about Salvador Dali, he astonishes with a highly sensitive portrait of the artist.

Dali's provocative media side too often eclipses the intelligence and refinement of the creator himself. Jean Christophe Argillet's anecdotes about Dali's childhood, his creation, his recreation and his entourage, disclose an exceptional personality who disrupted the 20^e century and aroused a great deal of controversy.

You'll find them all here, from Luis Buñuel to Gala, from Captain Moore to Picasso, or Paul Eluard... all those close to that most illustrious of surrealists, be they friends or rivals of Dali, the painter, the engraver, the sculptor, the film-maker and, above all, the poet.