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Feb 5, 2021 · 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.
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Jan 5, 2014 · "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…
The Debutante is based on a short story written by the artist Leonora Carrington, who was presented at the court of King George V and herself became a debutante in 1936. Elizabeth Hobbs celebrates Carrington’s bold and funny story with ink, paint and collage, accompanied by a score by composer Hutch Demouilpied.
May 10, 2024 · A vibrant, humorous and deeply enjoyable film, The Debutante enjoyed a stellar festival run over the past couple of years, playing at Annecy, winning awards at Clermont-Ferrand & SXSW and even making the shortlist for the Best Animated Short Film Award at the 95th Academy Awards.
Mar 4, 2024 · She wrote the story in 1938, in French, which wasn’t her first language, and in translation it has a bald syntax that sort of really tells it without any fanfare. I just loved it. It’s semi-autobiographical; she had also been presented as a debutante at the court of George V, and didn’t want to go down the route of being married.
The narrator, a debutante, befriends a hyena at the zoo and teaches it French. On the morning of her debutante ball, which she dreads, she has an idea - the hyena can attend the ball in her place. She disguises the hyena in her ballgown and high heels. However, they struggle to disguise its face. The hyena suggests killing and wearing the face of the narrator's maid. The narrator reluctantly ...
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