Travesties - Tom Stoppard
Paperback (10 Mar 1994)
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Travesties was born out of Stoppard's noting that in 1917 three of the twentieth century's most crucial revolutionaries -- James Joyce, the Dadaist founder Tristan Tzara, and Lenin -- were all living in Zurich. Also living in Zurich at this time was a British consula official called Henry Carr, a man acquainted with Joyce through the theater and later through a lawsuit concerning a pair of trousers. Taking Carr as his core, Stoppard spins this historical coincidence into a masterful and riotously funny play, a speculative portrait of what could have been the meeting of these profoundly influential men in a germinal Europe as seen through the lucid, lurid, faulty, and wholy riveting memory of an aging Henry Carr.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780802150899 |
Publisher: | Grove Atlantic |
Imprint: | Grove Press |
Pub date: | 10 Mar 1994 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 96 |
Weight: | 113g |
Height: | 210mm |
Width: | 146mm |
Spine width: | 8mm |