The Impotence of Asceticism: Luis Buñuel’s Simón del Desierto David Heslin September 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film “More welcome is slander to the pious soul than odious eulogies.” (1) Is the ascetic a paragon of humanity, or a self-indulgent masochist? This is the question Luis Buñuel, great Spanish Surrealist and provocat...
