false<![CDATA[Travesties]]>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181756829m/1188904.jpg179104<div><i>Travesties</i> 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. </div>11769021975Travestiestotal:419|5:142|4:172|3:85|2:19|1:1|41916925532650falsefalseMon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008Mon Dec 29 10:32:24 -0800 2008Wed Dec 31 10:47:10 -0800 2008 CARR: How are you, my dear Tristan? What brings you here?
TZARA: Oh, pleasure, pleasure! What else should bring anyone anywhere?
(TZARA, no less than CARR, is straight out of The Importance of Being Earnest.)
CARR: I don't know that I approve of all these ...more...]]>
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rhymed himself into a hernia.
He became quite adept
at the practice except
for occasional anti-climaxes."
Stoppard inserts some lovely debates on art/politics into his word-play, too. It was a pleasure to read, and probably a m...more...]]>
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