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The Breasts of Tiresias (French: Les mamelles de Tirésias) is a surrealist play by Guillaume Apollinaire. Written in 1903 the play received its first production in a revised version in 1917. In his preface to the play the poet invented the word surrealism to describe his new style of drama.The play has been adapted into an opera by Francis Poulenc. It also has been translated twice first Louis Simpson in the 60’s and Maya Slater in 2009.