Abstract

Tom Stoppard’s Travesties deals with a moment of apocryphal history, when three historical figures – James Joyce, Tristan Zara and Vladimir Lenin – come together in the Zurich public library in the apocalyptic third year of World War I. A fourth but lesser known historical witness, one Henry Carr, recalls his meeting with the “men of history,” through the misperceptions of memory, providing a prismatic but, of necessity, a fragmented, inaccurate and, perhaps, fictional insight into the lives ...

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