"A poet of genius."--Vladimir NabokovVia what Ilya Kaminsky and Jean Valentine call "readings"--not translations--of fragments of Marina Tsvetaeva's poems and prose, Tsvetaeva's lyrical genius is made accessible and poignant to a new generation of readers. By juxtaposing fragments of her poems with [...]
"Krupnee Tsvetaevoj v nashem stoletii net poeta" - tak skazal o Marine Tsvetaevoj Iosif Brodskij, imeja v vidu ne tolko prostranstvo Rossii.V nastojaschee izdanie voshel ves osnovnoj korpus stikhotvorenij Tsvetaevoj, poemy ("Poema Gory", "Poema Kontsa", "Krysolov", "Novogodnee"), avtobiograficheskaj[...]
This book is a major critical biography of the poet Maria Tsvetaeva by one of the foremost authorities on her work. It draws on a profusion of recent documentation and research, some of it hitherto unpublished, and encompasses the whole course of her life. Professor Karlinsky is careful to supply th[...]
Chronicles the final years in the life of one of Russia's most talented poets during the Stalin era, discussing Tsvetaeva's fateful decision to follow her husband, Sergei Efron, back to Moscow from her Paris exile, her arrest for anti-Soviet activity, and descent into a nightmare of official persecu[...]
Written during the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Moscow famine that followed, these poems are suffused with Tsvetaeva's irony and humor, which undoubtedly accounted for her success in not only reaching the end of the plague year alive, but making it the most productive of her career. We meet a [...]
Marina Tsvetaeva, one of this century's leading Russian authors, was fascinated by Pushkin throughout her life. She often modelled herself on Russia's first great poet. This book examines Tsvetaeva's writings on Pushkin, including her translations of his poetry into French. It sheds a new light on T[...]
Samaja tonkaja, samaja nezhnaja, samaja ranimaja i samaja zhestkaja zhenschina vo vsej mirovoj istorii - eto Marina Tsvetaeva. Genialnyj rebenok iz khoroshej semi, ucheba v Evrope, rannie stikhi. V 1911 godu Tsvetaeva znakomitsja s Sergeem Efronom i vykhodit za nego zamuzh. Kakaja neobychnaja, jark[...]
Eta kniga Mariny Tsvetaevoj, kotoruju Brodskij schital samym vazhnym dlja vsego mira poetom XX veka, sostavlena iz ee naibolee znachitelnykh proizvedenij - poem.[...]
The present study is a reading of the folkloric fairy-tale poem The Swain (Mólodets) (1924) by the Russian Modernist poet Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941). The poem represents a high point in Tsvetaeva's experiments with Russian folk art, and it is thoroughly folkloric in its theme, forms of writing [...]