Marina Tsvetaeva : the double beat of Heaven and Hell / Lily Feiler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Feiler, Lily, 1915-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

T︠S︡vetaeva, Marina, 1892-1941.

T︠S︡vetaeva, Marina.

Poets, Russian--20th century--Biography.

Poets, Russian.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (333 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 1994.

Language Note:

English

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."--BOOK JACKET.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Permissions

A Note on Translations, Transliteration, and Punctuation

Introduction

1. Family and Childhood

2. Growing Up: Reality and Fantasy

3. Adolescence, Mother's Death

4. Dawning Sexuality

5. Illusions

6. Lesbian Passion

7. In the Shadow of the Revolution

8. Life under Communism

9. Passion and Despair

10. Years of Frenzy and Growth

11. New Poetic Voice and Departure

12. Russian Berlin

13. Prague, Creative Peak

14. Great Love, Great Pain

15. Resignation and Birth of Son

16. Paris, Success and New Problems

17. The Correspondence with Rilke and Pasternak

18. Spiraling Down

19. Growing Isolation

20. Hitting Bottom

21 . Alienation and Self-Analysis

22. Indigence and Autobiographical Prose

23. Further Withdrawal

24. A Fateful Year, I937

25. Return to the Soviet Union

26. War, Evacuation, Suicide

Afterword

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages [291]-293) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822379539

0822379538

OCLC:

891395459