Comprising of three sequential plays, The Coast of Utopia chronicles
the story of romantics and revolutionaries caught up in a struggle for
political freedom in an age of emperors. The Coast of Utopia is Tom
Stoppard’s long-awaited and monumental trilogy that explores a group
of friends who come of age under the Tsarist autocracy of Nicholas I,
and for whom the term intelligentsia” was coined. Among them are
the anarchist Michael Bakunin, who was to challenge Marx for the soul
of the masses; Ivan Turgenev, author of some of the most enduring
works in Russian literature; the brilliant, erratic young critic
Vissarion Belinsky; and Alexander Herzen, a nobleman's son and the
first self-proclaimed socialist in Russia, who becomes the main focus
of this drama of politics, love, loss and betrayal. In The Coast of
Utopia, Stoppard presents an inspired examination of the struggle
between romantic anarchy, utopian idealism and practical reformation
in what The New York Times calls, The biggest theatrical event of
the year. . . . Brilliant, sprawling. . . . A rich pageant.”
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ISBN
9780802195296
Publisert
2014
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Vendor
Grove Press UK
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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