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The Seattle band The Young Fresh Fellows recorded the song "The New John Agar" on the album "Topsy Turvy" (1985)
His memoir Topsy Turvy Talk, which echoes the style of Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, recounts his military experiences during Bonaparte's last campaign.
Craney has appeared in the Mike Leigh films Topsy-Turvy (1999), All or Nothing (2002) and Vera Drake (2004), for which she was nominated for the 2005 BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.
Braham's struggles with alcoholism are portrayed in the 1999 film Topsy-Turvy, and during the run of The Mikado she was threatened with dismissal for this reason.
Film roles followed, including appearances in Spiceworld: The Movie (1997) and Topsy-Turvy (1999), and a leading role in Running Time (2000).
Broadly speaking, the story invokes the topsy-turvy relationship between “Sein” und “Schein” (being and appearance), a mainstay of 19th-century German idealism, that Kafka likes to complicate throughout his writng.