Travesties, Paperback/Tom Stoppard
Descriere
"Travesties" ws 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.
Despre autor
Sir Tom Stoppard OM, CBE a fost un dramaturg, scenarist și traducător britanic. Născut în Cehoslovacia, Stoppard a devenit faimos pentru piesele The Real Thing (1982) și Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1967), respectiv pentru scenariile filmelor Imperiul soarelui, Shakespeare îndrăgostit din 1988 sau Brazil din 1985.
