Travesties | Tristan Tzara
A poet who created Dada—a nihilistic movement in art and literature in the early part of the twentieth century—Tzara claims he is "the natural enemy of bourgeois art and the natural ally of the political left." Often, during his arguments about art and politics, he gets highly emotional and lashes out at the other characters. Joyce calls him "an overexcited little man, with a need for self-expression far beyond the scope of [his] natural gifts.''
Doll argues that Tzara "becomes perhaps the first Stoppard mouthpiece to articulate a clear position on the seriousness of play."...
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