| Title | : | Travesties |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Tom Stoppard |
| Release | : | 2011-05-16 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Theater, Books, Arts & Entertainment, Fiction & Literature, Drama |
| Size | : | 6478882 |
| "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 wholly riveting memory of an aging Henry Carr. |
