Mr. Knife Miss Fork
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Mr. Knife Miss Fork (1931) is a novel by René Crevel.
The phrase Mr. Knife, Miss Fork comes from René Crevel's novel, Babylon, where in the first chapter, the young girl, whose father has run off with her young cousin, imagines the couple through maneuvers of her knife and fork across the white tablecloth of the Atlantic Ocean.
Several artists, Max Ernst (whose art appears on the cover of the first volume), Man Ray, and Meret Oppenheim, did works titled "Mr Knife, Miss Fork," in connection with Crevel's book.
Translated by Kay Boyle.
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