Marina Tsvetaeva : the double beat of Heaven and Hell /
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| Author / Creator: | Feiler, Lily, 1915- |
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| Imprint: | Durham : Duke University Press, 1994. |
| Description: | xii, 299 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1652095 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Permissions
- A Note on Translations, Transliteration, and Punctuation
- Introduction
- 1. Family and Childhood: Formative forces
- 2. Growing Up: Reality and Fantasy: God/Devil: the central conflict
- 3. Adolescence, Mother's Death: Schools Broad Escape into imagination
- 4. Dawning Sexuality: Ellis and Nilender First poetry collection
- 5. Illusions: Marriage to Sergey Efron Birth of daughter, Ariadna Alya Disenchantment Father's death
- 6. Lesbian Passion: Sofiya Parnok The wound that would not heal
- 7. In the Shadow of the Revolution: Flirtation with Mandelshtam Love affairs dread Birth of second daughter, Irina Revolution and separation
- 8. Life Under Communism: Poverty, excitement, and creativity Involvement with actors and theater Closeness with Alya
- 9. Passion and Despair: Sonechka: fantasy of pure love Irina's death
- 10. Years of Frenzy and Growth: Volkonsky, Vysheslavtsev, Lann The Tsar-Maiden and "On a Red Steed"
- 11. New Poetic Voice and Departure: A young Bolshevik, literary friends Departure
- 12. Russian Berlin: Vishnyak, new infatuation Old friends: Ehrenburg and Bely Reunion with husband Correspondence with Pasternak
- 13. Prague, Creative Peak Creative crest - "The Swain" Letters to Pasternak and Bakhrakh
- 14. Great Love, Great Pain: Konstantin Rodzevich "Poem of the Mountain" and "Poem of the End" Marriage crisis
- 15. Resignation and Birth of Son: Grinding poverty, women friends Birth of son Georgy (Mur) Move to Paris
- 16. Paris, Success and New Problems: "The Ratcatcher" Limited Success Eurasians - new friends, criticism
- 17. The Correspondence with Rilke and Pasternak: Search for the Beyond Conflict with Pasternak Economic hardships
- 18. Spiraling Down: Rilke's death Hostility in literary circles Efron's turn toward Soviets
- 19. Growing Isolation: Phaedra After Russia published Defense of Mayakovsky Nikolay Gronsky
- 20. Hitting Bottom: Poetic crisis, growing isolation End of Pasternak's marriage Depression
- 21. Alienation and Self-Analysis: Salomea and "Letter to an Amazon"
- 22. Indigence and Autobiographical Prose: Ivask correspondence Efron applies for a Soviet passport Family conflicts
- 23. Further Withdrawal: Pasternak's Visit Steiger - new hopes for love dashed
- 24. A Fateful Year, 1937: Pushkin essays - a look into herself Alya's leaving for Russia The Efron case
- 25. Return to the Soviet Union: Atmosphere of Stalinist terror Arrest of Alya and Sergey Golytsino Writers' House Frustrated attempts to publish
- translations
- 26. War, Evacuation, Suicide
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index