Out of the Wings

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Siempre se olvida algo (c.1964), Virgilio Piñera

Titles
English title: You Always Forget Something
Date written: c. 1964
Keywords: logic, forgetting, travel
Genre and type: comedy, absurdist
Pitch

‘A woman is so worried about forgetting something she deliberately forgets it just so she doesn’t have to go through the real pain of forgetting it.  She has to spend her life permanently coming back to fetch it’

By Kate Eaton

Editions
  • Piñera, Virgilio. 2002. Teatro completo, ed. Rine Leal. La Habana, Cuba, Letras Cubanas

Entry written by Gwendolen Mackeith. Last updated on 15 June 2012.

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