The Four Little Girls and Desire Caught by the Tail
€9.25
Product Information
| ISBN | 9781847498021 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pablo Picasso |
| Publisher | Alma Books Ltd |
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 128 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.124 |
| Publishing Date | 30/10/2019 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €8.73 |
| Tax | €0.52 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €9.25 |
| Availability | 2 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
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.