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Jan 5, 2014 · […] the piece was originally conceived as an interpretation of Leonara Carrington’s short story “The Debutante,” about a woman who swaps bodies with a hyena after teaching it French. “Extravagant dresses […]
Dec 21, 2020 · “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...
- Merve Emre
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.
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...
- Nel Dahl
Apr 4, 2017 · In the world of Carrington’s fiction, hyenas can attend balls; maids and queens alike may be offed at a moment’s notice; and a gentleman asking to cured of an annoying fly may end up with navy ...
- Leonora Carrington
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 of thrushes, truffles, crushed sweet almonds ...
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May 31, 2017 · While Carrington begins as the debutante, she ends (in 1937, anyway) as the hyena. While the hyena will go on to embody a much more mystical and deeper meaning in Carrington’s work, in this story, the hyena’s symbolism is simple.
