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- The tale of a young woman’s strained relationship with her family’s money and good English manners, this surreal eight-minute animation tells of how she got a hyena from the zoo to take her place at an exclusive ball.
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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 knew best was a young hyena. She knew me too.
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 it...
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Nov 21, 2019 · In short, these are tensions tailor-made for fiction. They’re what make the debutante a deeply fascinating literary character. Her discomfort with the milieu of her childhood notwithstanding, Edith Wharton knew the world of the debutante intimately.
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.
Jan 5, 2014 · "The Debutante" is perhaps the most famous of Carrington's short stories. It dates from the late 1930s, when she was living in France and active with the Surrealist group in Paris. It's in The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington .
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Aug 22, 2023 · Leonora referred to the debutante season as “a cattle market,” and it’s clear that it epitomized everything she had come to loathe about the society in which she found herself: snobbery, fixed expectations, lack of spontaneity, sexism.
