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Marina Tsvetaeva (eBook, PDF)

The Double Beat of Heaven and Hell

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Produktbeschreibung

"e;No more passionate voice ever sounded in Russian poetry of the 20th century,"e; Joseph Brodsky writes of Marina Tsvetaeva. And yet Western readers are only now starting to discover what Tsvetaeva's Russian audience has already recognized, "e;that she was one of the major poetic voices of the century"e; (Tomas Venclova, The New Republic).Born to a family of Russian intelligentsia in 1892 and coming of age in the crucible of revolution and war, Tsvetaeva has been seen as a victim of her politicized time, her life and her work marked by exile, neglect, and persecution. This book is the first to show us the poet as she discovered her life through art, shaped as much by inner demons as by the political forces and harsh realities of her day. With remarkable psychological and literary subtlety, Lily Feiler traces these demons through the tragic drama of Tsvetaeva's life and poetry. Hers is a story full of contradictions, resisting social and literary conventions but enmeshed in the politics and poetry of her time. Feiler depicts the poet in her complex relation to her contemporaries-Pasternak, Rilke, Mayakovsky, Mandelstam, and Akhmatova. She shows us a woman embodying the values of nineteenth-century romanticism, yet radical in her poetry, supremely independent in her art, but desperate for appreciation and love, simultaneously mother and child in her complicated sexual relationships with men and women.From prerevolutionary Russia to Red Moscow, from pre-World War II Berlin, Prague, and Paris to the Soviet Union under Stalin, Feiler follows the tortuous drama of Tsvetaeva's life and work to its last tragic act, exposing at each turn the passions that molded some of this century's most powerful poetry.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 1994
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822379539
• Artikelnr.: 54674955

Autorenporträt

Lily Feiler is an independent scholar and translator living in New York. Her translation of Victor Shklovsky’s Mayakovsky and His Circle was nominated for the 1972 National Book Award for Translation.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments xi
Permissions xiii
A Note on Translations, Transliteration, and Punctuation xv
Introduction 1
1. Family and Childhood: Formative forces 7
2. Growing Up: Reality and Fantasy: God/Devil: the central conflict 22
3. Adolescence, Mother's Death: Schools Broad / Escape into imagination 30
4. Dawning Sexuality: Ellis and Nilender / First poetry collection 43
5. Illusions: Marriage to Sergey Efron / Birth of daughter, Ariadna / Alya
Disenchantment / Father's death 56
6. Lesbian Passion: Sofiya Parnok / The wound that would not heal 66
7. In the Shadow of the Revolution: Flirtation with Mandelshtam / Love
affairs and dread Birth of second daughter, Irina / Revolution and
separation 78
8. Life Under Communism: Poverty, excitement, and creativity / Involvement
with actors and theater / Closeness with Alya 86
9. Passion and Despair: Sonechka: fantasy of pure love / Irina's death 95
10. Years of Frenzy and Growth: Volkonsky, Vysheslavtsev, Lann / The
Tsar-Maiden and "On a Red Steed" 104
11. New Poetic Voice and Departure: A young Bolshevik, literary friends /
Departure 116
12. Russian Berlin: Vishnyak, new infatuation / Old friends: Ehrenburg and
Bely Reunion with husband / Correspondence with Pasternak 124
13. Prague, Creative Peak / Creative crest - "The Swain" / Letters to
Pasternak and Bakhrakh 133
14. Great Love, Great Pain: Konstantin Rodzevich / "Poem of the Mountain"
and "Poem of the End" / Marriage crisis 144
15. Resignation and Birth of Son: Grinding poverty, women friends / Birth
of son Georgy (Mur) Move to Paris 152
16. Paris, Success and New Problems: "The Ratcatcher" / Limited Success /
Eurasians - new friends, criticism 160
17. The Correspondence with Rilke and Pasternak: Search for the Beyond /
Conflict with Pasternak / Economic hardships 168
18. Spiraling Down: Rilke's death / Hostility in literary circles / Efron's
turn toward Soviets 180
19. Growing Isolation: Phaedra / After Russia published Defense of
Mayakovsky / Nikolay Gronsky 187
20. Hitting Bottom: Poetic crisis, growing isolation / End of Pasternak's
marriage / Depression 196
21. Alienation and Self-Analysis: Salomea and "Letter to an Amazon" 203
22. Indigence and Autobiographical Prose: Ivask correspondence / Efron
applies for a Soviet passport / Family conflicts 210
23. Further Withdrawal: Pasternak's Visit / Steiger - new hopes for love
dashed 223
24. A Fateful Year, 1937: Pushkin essays - a look into herself / Alya's
leaving for Russia / The Efron case 231
25. Return to the Soviet Union: Atmosphere of Stalinist terror / Arrest of
Alya and Sergey Golytsino Writers' House / Frustrated attempts to publish;
translations 242
26. War, Evacuation, Suicide 254
Afterword 265
Notes 269
Bibliography 291
Index 295