Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles, by Fermín Solís

Solis's graphic novel makes a solid--and delightful--supplement to the oeuvre of one of surrealism’s leading figures. Told with tenderness and drawn with whimsy, the book chronicles the period of Buñuel’s life that the artist spent filming his seminal pseudo-documentary, The Land without Bread, in the Spanish community of Las Hurdes, Solís focuses this fascinating story on Buñuel’s creative struggle and his internal debate between the principles of surrealism and those of social realism.