Captive Lion: The Life of Marina Tsvetayeva - Hardcover

Feinstein, Elaine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0525245022 ISBN 13: 9780525245025

Publisher: Dutton Adult, 1987

Synopsis

Traces the life of the Russian poet, describes the background of her times, and attempts to portray her complex personality

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From Library Journal:

Tsvetayeva (1892-1941), one of the greatest of Russian poets, addressed our beleaguered century in a unique, forceful voice. In Feinstein she has found a superb translator and a biographer whose feeling for her subject is evident in every concise line. As Feinstein portrays it, Tsvetayeva's life was gallant and doomed: possessed by the daemon and fed artistically by a series of bisexual passions (some, like that for Pasternak, purely epistolatory), she was never ruthless enough to tear away the web of family loyalties that bound herand one can argue that to have done so would have diminished her as a poet. Wherever possible, Feinstein lets Tsvetayeva speak for herself; in Lion she uses a score of poems from the anthology to illluminate the poet's experience. Readers interested in knowing more about Tsvetayeva's life and work in the Russian intellectual context can consult Simon Karlinsky's definitive Marina Tsvetayeva: the woman, her world and her poetry (Cambridge Univ. Pr., 1986), but this biography and the Selected Poems will enrich any library's shelves. Mary F. Zirin, Altadena, Cal.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Dutton Adult
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0525245022
• ISBN 13: 9780525245025
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 289