Selavy, Rrose

As additionally appears to have been the case of a covert transmutation of Marcel Duchamp into Rrose Selavy, Maier says, that this [mutation of gender] does actually happen in the Philosophical Work need not be a surprise. There are some people, if we may believe the stories, who also change their sex. Thus the Poets tell us about the sex changes of Cenea Iphis and Tiresias [and various others]. In more modern times, continues Maier,... 

Clair, Catalogue, 103-05, no. 130 Why not Sneeze Rose Selavy The French equivalent (not provided by Jean Clair) would be Pourquoi pas n eternue, Rrose Selavy ... 

Bonk, E. Marcel Duchamp, The Box in a Valise de ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Selavy. An Inventory of an Edition. New York Rizzoli, 1989. 

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