The Four Little Girls and Desire Caught by the Tail

ISBN-13: 9781847498021 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 128 str.

Pablo Picasso

Opis

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.

O autorze

Born in Malaga, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) spent most of his career in France and became one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, a pivotal figure in the Cubist and Surrealist movements.