Like many others who embraced the British spirit by fate rather than birth, Tom Stoppard (born in Czechoslovakia under the name Thomas Strossler) has become a national literary treasure in the UK over the years. Playwright, author of works such as Rosencrantz and Guildersten died Movie script shakespeare in love, The one who won the Oscar died this Saturday, at the age of 88, at his residence in Dorset, surrounded by his family.
“He will be remembered for the brilliance and humanity of his work, his ingenuity, his irreverence, his generosity of spirit, and his profound love of the English language,” he said in a statement from United Agents, the agency that represented the playwright.
He worked in radio, television, cinema and theatre. He defined himself as a conscientious conservative, even a liberal, with a deep interest in human rights, political freedom, and oversight, which he conveyed in many of his early works.
He left Czechoslovakia with his priests, among non-observant Jews, to begin a life as a refugee that took him to Singapore and India until he moved to England in 1946. His priest died, according to Stoppard’s report, on the boat in which he was trying to leave the Japanese army. A doctor by profession, he served voluntarily on the British side.
The playwright, who was knighted by Queen Isabel II, began as a journalist. Then he began writing short works for radio, until in 1960 he presented his first work on stage. Enter a free man (Un hombre libre).
Stoppard was able to deal in a brilliant and brilliant way with problems and questions of complex philosophical depth, to which he provided a narrative structure and agility that enticed millions of spectators. This is clearly reflected in one of his most famous works, Rosencrantz and Guildnerstein diedWhich revolves around the absence of free will and the inevitable fate of two secondary characters in it village Written by William Shakespeare who cannot understand the truth of his role in this great tragedy, and he tells it all in a very humorous way. stoppardian. This work, which premiered in 1966 at the Edinburgh Festival and was represented in later years by the National Theater Company, won four Tony Awards, including Best Play.
Fans of the cinema and literature of another giant of British literature, John le Carré, know that Stoppard’s hand is behind one of the most amazing cinematic adaptations, one that leaves no plan or word, how it was. La Casa Russia.
His theatrical production was greatly expanded. He began signing more than thirty works in which he unleashed magnetic intellectual sophistication. The adjective “stoppardian”, derived from the Oxford English Dictionary, is defined as “the use of elegant ingenuity when addressing philosophical questions”. On Jumpers (Los Saltadores), Some British Astronauts Arrive on the Moon While a group of ultra-liberals takes over the British government, Stoppard serves up a sophisticated satire on academic philosophy, laden with quotations and references. Many critics considered it his brilliant work, although others called it an unnecessary stunt that offended many spectators.
Daba himself. The author never shied away from the complexity and diversity of ideas and arguments that many of his followers appreciated. On ArcadiaReleased on stage in 1993, it follows the relationship between a precocious teenager, obsessed with science and mathematics, and her teacher, a poet friend of Lord Byron, and the plot serves to debate the relationship between the present and the past, certainty versus uncertainty, chaos theory and the different schools of landscaping and gardening.
Stoppard’s creativity was required on many occasions to put the final brooch on cultural products intended for mass audiences. Your brother is also in the texts Indiana Jones and the Last Crusadeor Galactic War, Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.
Although it does not officially appear in the end credits, it is in the public domain as part of the dialogue. From Schindler’s List Stoppard’s head popped out, so the playwright took it upon himself to get them out. She says that director Steven Spielberg dragged him out of the bathroom full force because he was desperate to consult some ideas during filming. naturally, LeopoldstadtIt is the last work written by the author, and it was shown for the first time in 2020 at the Wyndham Theater in the West End of London. It was released and critics considered it one of the works. Schindler’s List To the tables. With many personal and biographical clues, it tells the story of a Jewish family that, in the first half of the twentieth century, grew up and settled in Vienna, where they left behind the traces of the anti-Semitic pogroms that broke out in Russia and Eastern Europe. Stoppard’s four assailants and assailants were killed in concentration camps by the Nazis.
His trilogy La Costa de la Utopia (voyage, shipwreck, rescue), For which he won a Tony Award, it deals with the philosophical debates that existed in pre-revolutionary Russia at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
Perhaps for the sake of his personal history, and for his staunch defense of individual freedom, Stoppard did not share the ideas of other playwrights of his generation. Without making major public exhibitions of his political ideas, and with a more solitary and individual character, he was undoubtedly at the moment supportive of the conservative revolution that assumed the arrival of Margaret Thatcher. Married three times and revered by friends, such as Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger, who paid tribute to him on social media on Saturday, Stoppard had an elegance and presence that did not raise any rancor among his rivals. “One of Tom’s greatest achievements is that he has not been able to send us anything, except perhaps his good paint, his talent, his money and his fortune,” quipped another famous British author such as Simon Gray.
It is interesting that the great playwright of ideas always had journalism as his first vocation. He explained to Reuters in an interview: “My first ambition was to be on the ground floor of some African airport while machine gun bullets flew over my typewriter. But I didn’t work as a reporter. I never thought I had the right to ask people for anything. I always thought I was forbidden from giving my head with my mother what I was forbidden to call her by the police.”