The Four Little Girls and Desire Caught by The Tail (Paperback)

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. This volume also contains the accompanying illustrations by Picasso himself.

ABOUT THE SERIES: The 101 Pages series has been created with the aim of redefining and enriching the classics canon by promoting unjustly neglected works of enduring significance. These texts have been treated with a fresh editorial approach, and are presented in an elegantly designed format.

General

Imprint:	Alma Classics
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Alma Classics 101 Pages
Release date:	October 2019
First published:	2019
Authors:	Pablo Picasso
Translators:	Roland Penrose
Dimensions:	198 x 128 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	128
ISBN-13:	978-1-84749-802-1
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	French
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays > General
LSN:	1-84749-802-7
Barcode:	9781847498021

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