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1. biblioklept.org › 2014/01/05 › the-debutante-a-short“The Debutante,” A Short Story by Leonora Carrington

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   Jan 5, 2014 · On the morning of May first, 1934, very early, I went to visit the hyena. “What a mess of shit,” I told her. “I must go to my ball this evening.”. “You’re lucky,” she said. “I would go happily. I do not know how to dance, but after all, I could engage in conversation.”. “There will be many things to eat,” said I.

2. apersonalanthology.com › 2021/02/05 › the-debutante‘The Debutante’ by Leonora Carrington - A Personal Anthology

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   Feb 5, 2021 · In ‘ The Debutante’, the female narrator is a frequent visitor to her local zoo. There she befriends a hyena, who turns out to be very intelligent – “I taught her French and she, in turn, taught me her language.”. Keen to avoid playing the debutante and going to a ball, she and the hyena plot to swap places. This involves killing her ...

3. weirdfictionreview.com › 2017 › 05Hyenas, Horses, and Rabbits, Oh My! - Weird Fiction Review

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   May 31, 2017 · In this story, she is both the debutante and the hyena, a past and present evaluation (and catharsis) of her new life at the time of the story’s composition in 1937. Before this year, Carrington was the daughter of one of the most affluent families in England. She was presented at court, and expected to marry rich in both money and title.

4. www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2020/12/28How Leonora Carrington Feminized Surrealism - The New Yorker

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   Dec 21, 2020 · From this communion of human, animal, and machine, Leonora was conceived. When she emerged, on April 6, 1917, England shook. The success of a creation story hangs on how richly it seeds the life ...

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5. www.vice.com › en › articleThe Forgotten Surrealist Painter Who ‘Didn’t Have Time to Be ...

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   Apr 12, 2017 · In Leonora Carrington’s 1937 short story “The Debutante,” a rebellious, upper-class girl’s only ally is a hyena.A frequent visitor of the zoo, the girl laments to the hyena there that she ...

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6. www.vice.com › en › articleRead These Surreal Short Stories About a Talking Hyena ... - VICE

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   Apr 4, 2017 · The Debutante. When I was a debutante, I often went to the zoo. ... While the hyena was eating, I looked out the window. A few minutes later she said, “I can’t eat any more. Her two feet are ...

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   What is the plot of a hyena vs a debutante?

   • Keen to avoid playing the debutante and going to a ball, she and the hyena plot to swap places. This involves killing her maid Mary, so that the hyena can nibble off her face and adopt it as a mask. The prose is clean and simple, and the merry tone of the story makes the sudden swerve towards violence even more blackly comic and disturbing.

   ‘The Debutante’ by Leonora Carrington – A Personal Anthology

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   What is the story 'the debutante' about?

   • “The Debutante,” a story Carrington wrote just after leaving home, shows the savagery she wrought from her family’s money and good English manners. A girl befriends a hyena at the zoo, teaches it to speak, and persuades it to take her place at a ball.

   How Leonora Carrington Feminized Surrealism | The New Yorker

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   What did a hyena say in May 1934?

   • On the morning of May first, 1934, very early, I went to visit the hyena. “What a mess of shit,” I told her. “I must go to my ball this evening.” “You’re lucky,” she said. “I would go happily. I do not know how to dance, but after all, I could engage in conversation.” “There will be many things to eat,” said I.

   “The Debutante,” A Short Story by Leonora Carrington

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   Who is the narrator in the debutante?

   • In ‘ The Debutante’ , the female narrator is a frequent visitor to her local zoo. There she befriends a hyena, who turns out to be very intelligent – “I taught her French and she, in turn, taught me her language.” Keen to avoid playing the debutante and going to a ball, she and the hyena plot to swap places.

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   What did Leonora Carrington say about being a debutante?

   • “The Debutante” by Leonora Carrington WHEN I was a debutante I often went to the zoological garden. I went so often that I was better acquainted with animals than with the young girls of my age. It was to escape from the world that I found myself each day at the zoo. The beast I knew best was a young hyena. She knew me too.

   “The Debutante,” A Short Story by Leonora Carrington

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   What did the hyena say before the mirror?

   • Before the mirror, the hyena admired herself in Marie’s face. She had eaten very carefully all around the face so that what was left was just what was needed. “Surely, it’s properly done,” said I. Toward evening, when the hyena was all dressed, she declared: “I am in a very good mood.

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8. www.goodreads.com › book › showThe Debutante by Leonora Carrington - Goodreads

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   Leonora Carrington. 3.96. 400ratings59reviews. A debutante frees a hyena from the zoo so that it might take her place at her coming-out ball; an artist paints a portrait of a man’s dead wife, but finds she has painted herself instead; a woman makes love to a boar underneath a mountain of cats; a chicken is roasted with the brains and livers ...