{"product_id":"marina-tsvetaeva-9780822314820","title":"Marina Tsvetaeva","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Feiler’s book is the most complete biography so far written. The poet’s life is recorded and interpreted in a new way, meaningful and coherent. Marina Tsvetaeva’s very dramatic life is told in splendid detail.\"—Simon Karlinsky, author of \u003ci\u003eMarina Tsvetaeva: The Woman, Her World, and Her Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The life and poetry of Marina Tsvetaeva, Russia’s greatest modern poet, were marked by passion, commitment and craft. The terrifying egotism that fueled her poetry and mythologized her life from childhood to suicide has never been so convincingly set out as in Lily Feiler’s psychobiography.\"—Barbara Heldt, author of \u003ci\u003eTerrible Perfection: Women and Russian Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This well-researched, thoughtful, and fair biography of Marina Tsvetaeva especially illuminates that intimate connection between passionate artist and self-destructive woman that, in very different circumstances, also characterized the genius of Sylvia Plath. Against the background of the Russian Revolution, the privations and hardships endured by this uniquely gifted but psychologically damaged Romantic are viewed with a sympathy untouched by sentimentality. I cannot imagine a better introduction to Tsvetaeva’s conflicted life and work.\"—Anne Stevenson, author of \u003ci\u003eBitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments        xi\u003cbr\u003e Permissions        xiii\u003cbr\u003e A Note on Translations, Transliteration, and Punctuation        xv\u003cbr\u003e Introduction        1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Family and Childhood: Formative forces        7\u003cbr\u003e 2. Growing Up: Reality and Fantasy: God\/Devil: the central conflict        22\u003cbr\u003e 3. Adolescence, Mother's Death: Schools Broad \/ Escape into imagination        30\u003cbr\u003e 4. Dawning Sexuality: Ellis and Nilender \/ First poetry collection        43\u003cbr\u003e 5. Illusions: Marriage to Sergey Efron \/ Birth of daughter, Ariadna \/ Alya Disenchantment \/ Father's death        56\u003cbr\u003e 6. Lesbian Passion: Sofiya Parnok \/ The wound that would not heal        66\u003cbr\u003e 7. In the Shadow of the Revolution: Flirtation with Mandelshtam \/ Love affairs and dread Birth of second daughter, Irina \/ Revolution and separation        78\u003cbr\u003e 8. Life Under Communism: Poverty, excitement, and creativity \/ Involvement with actors and theater \/ Closeness with Alya        86\u003cbr\u003e 9. Passion and Despair: Sonechka: fantasy of pure love \/ Irina's death        95\u003cbr\u003e 10. Years of Frenzy and Growth: Volkonsky, Vysheslavtsev, Lann \/ The Tsar-Maiden and \"On a Red Steed\"        104\u003cbr\u003e 11. New Poetic Voice and Departure: A young Bolshevik, literary friends \/ Departure        116\u003cbr\u003e 12. Russian Berlin: Vishnyak, new infatuation \/ Old friends: Ehrenburg and Bely Reunion with husband \/ Correspondence with Pasternak        124\u003cbr\u003e 13. Prague, Creative Peak \/ Creative crest - \"The Swain\" \/ Letters to Pasternak and Bakhrakh        133\u003cbr\u003e 14. Great Love, Great Pain: Konstantin Rodzevich \/ \"Poem of the Mountain\" and \"Poem of the End\" \/ Marriage crisis        144\u003cbr\u003e 15. Resignation and Birth of Son: Grinding poverty, women friends \/ Birth of son Georgy (Mur) Move to Paris        152\u003cbr\u003e 16. Paris, Success and New Problems: \"The Ratcatcher\" \/ Limited Success \/ Eurasians - new friends, criticism        160\u003cbr\u003e 17. The Correspondence with Rilke and Pasternak: Search for the Beyond \/ Conflict with Pasternak \/ Economic hardships        168\u003cbr\u003e 18. Spiraling Down: Rilke's death \/ Hostility in literary circles \/ Efron's turn toward Soviets        180\u003cbr\u003e 19. Growing Isolation: Phaedra \/ After Russia published Defense of Mayakovsky \/ Nikolay Gronsky        187\u003cbr\u003e 20. Hitting Bottom: Poetic crisis, growing isolation \/ End of Pasternak's marriage \/ Depression        196\u003cbr\u003e 21. Alienation and Self-Analysis: Salomea and \"Letter to an Amazon\"        203\u003cbr\u003e 22. Indigence and Autobiographical Prose: Ivask correspondence \/ Efron applies for a Soviet passport \/ Family conflicts        210\u003cbr\u003e 23. Further Withdrawal: Pasternak's Visit \/ Steiger - new hopes for love dashed        223\u003cbr\u003e 24. A Fateful Year, 1937: Pushkin essays - a look into herself \/ Alya's leaving for Russia \/ The Efron case        231\u003cbr\u003e 25. Return to the Soviet Union: Atmosphere of Stalinist terror \/ Arrest of Alya and Sergey Golytsino Writers' House \/ Frustrated attempts to publish; translations        242\u003cbr\u003e 26. War, Evacuation, Suicide        254\u003cbr\u003e Afterword        265\u003cbr\u003e Notes        269\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography        291\u003cbr\u003e Index        295","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406014718295,"sku":"9780822314820","price":84.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822314820.jpg?v=1730494246","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/marina-tsvetaeva-9780822314820","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}