Travesties by Tom Stoppard

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.

Publisher:	Faber and Faber
Year:	1982
Binding:	Paperback
ISBN:	9780571106837
Condition:	Good
Description:	Owner's Name inside. Price sticker on front cover. A few annotations in pen.

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SKU: 1602760
Location: Plays