| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 299 pages) : illustrations |
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Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Permissions -- A Note on Translations, Transliteration, and Punctuation -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Family and Childhood -- Chapter 2. Growing Up: Reality and Fantasy -- Chapter 3. Adolescence, Mother's Death -- Chapter 4. Dawning Sexuality -- Chapter 5. Illusions -- Chapter 6. Lesbian Passion -- Chapter 7. In the Shadow of the Revolution -- Chapter 8. Life under Communism -- Chapter 9. Passion and Despair -- Chapter 10. Years of Frenzy and Growth -- Chapter 11. New Poetic Voice and Departure |
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Chapter 12. Russian Berlin Chapter 13. Prague, Creative Peak -- Chapter 14. Great Love, Great Pain -- Chapter 15. Resignation and Birth of Son -- Chapter 16. Paris, Success and New Problems -- Chapter 17. The Correspondence with Rilke and Pasternak -- Chapter 18. Spiraling Down -- Chapter 19. Growing Isolation -- Chapter 20. Hitting Bottom -- Chapter 21. Alienation and Self-Analysis -- Chapter 22. Indigence and Autobiographical Prose -- Chapter 23. Further Withdrawal -- Chapter 24. A Fateful Year, 1937 -- Chapter 25. Return to the Soviet Union |
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Chapter 26. War, Evacuation, Suicide Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
"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, Mandelshtam, 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. Here we see the poet who could read her work glorifying the White Army to an audience of Red Army men, the woman who, with her husband a Soviet agent in Paris, could write a long poem about the execution of the last Tsar."--Jacket |
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Russian poetry |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-293) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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T︠S︡vetaeva, Marina, 1892-1941.
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T︠S︡vetaeva, Marina, 1892-1941 fast |
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Cvetaeva, Marina 1892-1941 gnd |
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T︠S︡vetaeva, Marina, 1892-1941 nli |
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Cvetaeva, Marina I. swd |
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Poets, Russian -- 20th century -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
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Poets, Russian
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Biografie
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Poets, Russian -- 20th century -- Biography
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Biographies
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collective biographies.
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780822379539 |
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0822379538 |
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