Desire Caught by the Tail
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Desire Caught by the Tail is a farcical play written by the painter Pablo Picasso.
Cover of first English translation, 1948
Raymond Queneau
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Raymond Auguste Queneau was a French novelist, poet, critic, editor and co-founder and president of Oulipo, notable for his wit and cynical humour.
Desire Caught by the Tail
…in the Paris apartment of Michel Leiris. There the parts were read by such local literati as Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Valentine Hugo, Raymond Queneau and Picasso himself. Albert Camus directed the piece. The Living Theatre made the play a part of their first critical success, when three poetic plays…
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Effigy of Raymond Queneau, Satrap of Collège de 'Pataphysique, by Jean-Max Albert Rt