{"product_id":"opus-siniestrus-selected-plays-isbn-9781681378572","title":"Opus Siniestrus: Selected Plays","description":"\u003cb\u003eGhosts, a toy horse, an ostrich egg, and a menagerie of apocalyptic and chimerical beasts feature in these characteristically playful, never-before-collected plays by the legendary surrealist writer and artist Leonora Carrington.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBest known for her vivid, dreamlike paintings and darkly humorous prose, Leonora Carrington was also a brilliant playwright whose dramatic works are as subversive and sly as anything we have come to expect of her. The first comprehensive collection of Carrington’s plays, this volume gathers plays from her early years in Paris to her later work in Mexico City, and includes several that have never before been translated from French and Spanish.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA young woman falls in love with her rocking horse in the coming-of-age-tale \u003ci\u003ePenelope\u003c\/i\u003e—a production of which was famously staged in 1961 by Alejandro Jodorowsky. In \u003ci\u003eFlannel Night Shirt\u003c\/i\u003e, a corpse lies in a pool of blood while ghostly figures in flannel night shirts frolic in the basement. And in the ecofeminist satire\u003ci\u003e Opus Siniestrus\u003c\/i\u003e, an old woman—the sole survivor of a virus that kills only women—battles the patriarchy to prevent it from claiming the last ostrich egg in the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReminiscent of the films of Maya Deren and David Lynch, these are stories of repressed desires and forbidden pleasures, of myths and mysticism, magic and mayhem, from one of the most singular and imaginative minds of the twentieth century.\u003cb\u003eLeonora Carrington\u003c\/b\u003e (1917–2011) was a Surrealist painter and writer. Born in Lancashire, England, she spent most of her life in Mexico City among artists such as Remedios Varo and Alejandro Jodorowsky. Her writings include the novel \u003ci\u003eThe Hearing Trumpet\u003c\/i\u003e, the memoir \u003ci\u003eDown Below\u003c\/i\u003e, and a collection of illustrated stories for children, \u003ci\u003eThe Milk of Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e, all available from NYRB.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJonathan P. Eburne\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eExploded Views: Speculative Form and the Labor of Inquiry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOutsider Theory: Intellectual Histories of Unorthodox Ideas, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Surrealism and the Art of Crime\u003c\/i\u003e. He has also edited or co-edited several books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Cambridge History of Surrealist Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLeonora Carrington and the International Avant-Garde\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the J. H. Hexter Professor in the Humanities at Washington University.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303612469477,"sku":"NP9781681378572","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781681378572.jpg?v=1767734245","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/opus-siniestrus-selected-plays-isbn-9781681378572","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}