The Coast of Utopia. Drama trilogy
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The Coast of Utopia. Drama trilogy
14.99 €
British Tom Stoppard managed to write about the nineteenth-century intellectuals at the origins of free thought and revolution in Russia in such a way that he has been read and staged in Russia for the second decade.
Stoppard has always been interested in the personal choices of individuals in the context of historical events. It is not surprising that Eastern Europe, and especially Russia, its cyclical history of reform and repression and the fate of thinking people trying to find a way out of this circle, became one of his favorite themes.
The heroes of "The Coast of Utopia" Alexander Herzen, Mikhail Bakunin, Vissarion Belinsky and others, whose names are given to streets and chapters in textbooks, appear as bright, complex and unexpectedly modern people. They fall in love, quarrel, make mistakes - and solve the eternal problem: whether there is a right to criticize their country and speak to it from the outside, "from the other side," or whether only those inside, those whose lives, freedom, and opportunity to be heard have a voice.
Stoppard has always been interested in the personal choices of individuals in the context of historical events. It is not surprising that Eastern Europe, and especially Russia, its cyclical history of reform and repression and the fate of thinking people trying to find a way out of this circle, became one of his favorite themes.
The heroes of "The Coast of Utopia" Alexander Herzen, Mikhail Bakunin, Vissarion Belinsky and others, whose names are given to streets and chapters in textbooks, appear as bright, complex and unexpectedly modern people. They fall in love, quarrel, make mistakes - and solve the eternal problem: whether there is a right to criticize their country and speak to it from the outside, "from the other side," or whether only those inside, those whose lives, freedom, and opportunity to be heard have a voice.
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