The Four Little Girls and Desire Caught by the Tail Paperback / softback
by Pablo Picasso
Part of the Alma Classics 101 Pages series
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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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:128 pages
- Publisher:Alma Books Ltd
- Publication Date:30/10/2019
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- ISBN:9781847498021
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:128 pages
- Publisher:Alma Books Ltd
- Publication Date:30/10/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9781847498021
