书籍介绍
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.
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Hilarious —— Tom Stoppard你这是在写RPS吧——Tzara/Joyce/Lenin + "Drive them Wilde"!
——What of it? I was here. They were here. They went on. I went on. We all went on. —— No, we didn’t. We stayed. They all went on.
乔、列和Tzara构成三角形：艺术、艺术反思、艺术反思的反思（对，每次反思只折角了六十度），还无限转动下去－－那自以为嘲讽一切的transcendence不是正好消亡于虚无运动吗？又恰为古板康德所接起；而有意的列宁格勒式艺术夹在之间。三种立场像跳麦克白开头女巫舞，排斥结合，直到其终极底层的载体，一个庸俗直白，关心战壕、荣誉与裤子面料，接近解构素材的个体本体的记忆混沌里，环形上升且消弭。文学读者的寻宝游戏，limericks, alliteration, (counterfeit) dialectism, (too much of) Oscar fxxkin Wilde, 还有至少两次女性角色对dadaism的正义处决。读到格温和塞西丽齐喊“智识上的区隔怎逾越呀！”我真大笑出声！伟大的苏黎世
an intellectual & structural complexity, a harmonious whole
Henry Carr的高难度独白颇多 结合现场版观感 A brilliant play!
TS的剧本好详尽，灯光转场都给你写好了，完全可以当小说看。我对俄罗斯那个时期的历史了解不多，觉得有一点点影响了阅读的体验，但也品尝得到这部剧的精彩，要是能在伦敦碰上这部剧的再排是肯定会去看的（也不知道猴年马月
太他妈难读了.....我需要看这个剧