A bunch of carnivorous rabbits, a young girl who turns into a snow-white horse or another young girl who sends a disguised hyena to a ball instead of herself. These are just three of the short stories contained in this little book, all of them equally bizarre and very similar to the paintings of Carrington. Not always easy to follow the storyline, but really funny to read.
“The skeleton was as happy as a madman whose straitjacket had been taken off. He felt liberated at being able to walk without flesh. The mosquitoes didn’t bite him anymore. He didn’t have to have his hair cut. He was neither hungry nor thirsty, hot nor cold. He was far from the lizard of love.”
“The Skeleton’s Holiday’ was written in 1939 as part of a collaborative novel with Hans Arp, Marcel Duchamp, Paul Eluard, Max Ernst, Georges Hugnet, Gisèle Prassinos et al., called The Man Who Lost His Skeleton. ‘Uncle Sam Carrington’, “The Debutante’, ‘White Rabbits’, ‘Seventh Horse’, ‘My Flannel Knickers’ and ‘The Oval Lady’ were translated into English from the original French by Kathrine Talbot, Marina Warner, Paul de Angelis and Carrington herself and first published in 1988.