Marina Tsvetaeva, Her Life in Poems - Rolf Gross

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was sleeping in Lethe's backwaters. A paid invitation by a Parisian journal to read her poetry and the offer of Olga Chernova and her husband, Russian friends, to put them up sealed the decision. - Maybe she would be able to earn some real money with her writing. She managed to retain her Czech stipend – it was supposed to be a temporary visit. 48
France 1925 – 1939 The Summer of 1926 Pasternak - Tsvetaeva - Rilke This long chapter is devoted to the correspondence between Rilke and Tsvetaeva. Marina and her children arrived in Paris and moved in with the Chernovs in November 1925. Sergey joined them after Christmas. The Chernovs' was only a spacious three-room apartment, but it had central heating, a gas stove, and a bathroom! The Chernovs had three adult daughters and the place was crowded - but Marina had not lived in such luxury for years if ever. They helped each other, the atmosphere was congenial and harmonious. All five Chernovs were published writers. Marina was still nursing Murg, nevertheless she managed to work extremely hard. By February she had finished two articles, “The Poet on the Critic” and “Flower Garden”, both biting reviews of the expatriat literary scene. She had met the writer Dimitry P. Svyatopolk-Mirsky, one of the founders of the Eurasia Movement in France, who encouraged her and facilitated the publication of these pieces. Her literary criticism hit Paris and eventually Moscow like a bomb. No other work of hers was greeted by such a storm of indignation. The expatriate community and some writers in Moscow accused her of being a Bolshevik, and the Soviet sympathizers of being a hopeless bourgeois romantic, a “hysterical young woman”. In actualty the upheaval came down to her having offended a number of expatriate writers in France by exposing their sedate sloppyness and their unjust criticism of writers still in Russia. This is not the place to examine these pieces [see VS p.261-273]. They are dated today and only of interest to literary historians. Marina never replied to these attacks, they were below her level. Tsvetaeva's poetry lives, while the exposed victims are rightfully forgotten. But this backlash explains some of the hatred against Tsvetayeva, which after two generations still abounds especially in France. The original reason of their visit, Marina giving her first poetry reading since Moscow, had to wait until February 1926: A trio played Italian songs. The evening exeeded all expectations. “Marina read about 40 poems. The hall was overcrowded, people were standing outside.” wrote Sergey full of enthusiasm and continued, “Since this evening the number of her ill-wishers has expanded considerably. Other poets and prose writers are 49
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Page 3 and 4: poetic power like distress and - lo
Page 5 and 6: Childhood Moscow 8 Tryokhprudny Per
Page 7 and 8: children. In “Mother and Music”
Page 9 and 10: seventeen Marina began to smoke, a
Page 11 and 12: Koktebel Maximilian Voloshin's Have
Page 13 and 14: The motley crowd of greater and les
Page 15 and 16: did not concern her. My poems, writ
Page 17 and 18: Sofia Parnok Koktebel and Moscow 19
Page 19 and 20: She writes and a few days later des
Page 21 and 22: And I'll tell you: - All the same -
Page 23 and 24: orderly. Eventually he was drafted
Page 25 and 26: In December 1915 Marina was invited
Page 27 and 28: To Osip Mandelstam A strange anxiet
Page 29 and 30: Marina escaped on flights to the ot
Page 31 and 32: Love! Love! Even in convulsions, ev
Page 33 and 34: - Alya had these frequent attacks.
Page 35 and 36: ... Dead - and risen! Just enough f
Page 37 and 38: Berlin - Prague Ilya Ehrenburg Serg
Page 39 and 40: her and writes that “he had been
Page 41 and 42: etween her insatiable need for free
Page 43 and 44: Moscow. I don't want to write about
Page 45 and 46: Swan-like... - But what happened Li
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Page 57 and 58: horseman. Your penciled notation (i
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Page 61 and 62: in 1924 and 1925), hence my long so
Page 63 and 64: You are alive, I want to see you. A
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Page 67 and 68: to feign halves. We, confined to ci
Page 69 and 70: German is deeper than French, fulle
Page 71 and 72: eflection when it appears in the wa
Page 73 and 74: asleep, fast asleep. I sound quite
Page 75 and 76: winter!... "You don't need to answe
Page 77 and 78: This letter became the last in thei
Page 79 and 80: France 1925 - 1939 The Lure of the
Page 81 and 82: Mur and Marina, 1936 Photo dommuseu
Page 83 and 84: In your family album! Children! You
Page 85 and 86: People are all the same to me, And
Page 87 and 88: go. But there was, of course, no ch
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Page 91 and 92: The idea of suicide is disturbing t
Page 93 and 94: Marina Tsetaeva (1892 - 1941) Chron
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Page 97 and 98: August 17, Marina and Mur evacuated
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