After Russia: The Second Notebook

by Marina Tsvetaeva

2021-01-08 09:47:57

Boris Pasternak is both the presiding spirit and the addressee of specific poems in After Russia, Marina Tsvetaeva’s last collection, published in Paris 13 years before she died. The two poets engaged in an impassioned correspondence which offe... Read more
Boris Pasternak is both the presiding spirit and the addressee of specific poems in After Russia, Marina Tsvetaeva’s last collection, published in Paris 13 years before she died. The two poets engaged in an impassioned correspondence which offers crucial insights into the background and meaning of certain items. If a group of remarkably tender poems concerns the emigré critic Alexander Bakhrakh, remarkably little space is devoted to Tsvetaeva’s cataclysmic affair with her husband’s friend Konstantin Rozdevich during the last months of 1923. Towards the end, references to Russia and Russian culture—so studiously avoided earlier—flood back, making the final obeisance to a Russian peasant woman and to Pasternak in Moscow a fitting close. Less

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File size8.5 X 5.5 X 0.29 in
Print pages122
PublisherShearsman Books
Publication date October 26, 2018
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781848615519
Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva ( 8 Oct [O.S. 26 Sep] 1892 – 31 Aug 1941) was a Russian poet. Her work is considered among some of the greatest in twentieth century Russian literature. She lived through a...

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