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The Four Little Girls and Desire Caught by the Tail
By (author) Pablo Picasso, Translated by Roland Penrose
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Only edition in print In the 1940s, Picasso wrote two plays in French: the first, Desire Caught by the Tail, was conceived during the German occupation of Paris and features a cast of grotesque allegorical characters such as the Onion, Silence or Fat Anxiety discussing the crucial wartime themes of hunger, cold and love; the second, The Four Little Girls, came about a few years after the end of the war on the French Riviera, and presents the stream-of-consciousness thoughts of four unnamed girls in a vegetable garden, revealing an unexpectedly evil aspect of childhood. These surreal compositions, which were meant to be read aloud rather than formally staged, are a testament to the great artist’s imaginative powers, and have been considered as forerunners to the theatre of the absurd of the 1950s, as exemplified by Beckett, Ionesco and Adamov.
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Publisher | Alma Books Ltd
Published date | 30 Oct 2019
Language | English
Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 128
Dimensions | 196 x 130 x 12mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 120g
ISBN | 978-1-8474-9802-1
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BISAC | performing arts / screenplays
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