Title: Lacks Any True Context
Review: I picked this up for a few dollars at the bookstore and was invigorated to begin reading it but it turns out that it was written by a dilettante with too much time on his hands. It starts off as a vapid pseudo-bio but the author never real gives us any authentic substance in the 300+ pages. He throws out names as if we are supposed to know defunct abstractions and pretentious writers and he skips the years 1932-1945 for some reason. About half way through the read he really let me down because he goes on to say one of the most incongruous and nonsensical things I have ever heard of, that Franco of Spain "was not really a fascist". Obviously the guy has no understanding of precepts relating to Spain or Europe and the ending is a complete waste, considering he devoted one page to Bunuel's death.
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