Reviews for Muzeڷi Esenina v knige

The average rating for Muzeڷi Esenina v knige based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-09-18 00:00:00 Karen Monegatto I picked up this book in a library years ago, i was aware that Marina Tsetaeva is revered in Russia as one of the 20th centuries greatest poets. I also vaguely remembered that her life came to a tragic end and that she was famous for her passion and tumultuous relationships with men and women. Well, 'Passionate' is an understatement in describing this woman's INCREDIBLE life!! You really can't help but feel the tragedy that such an incredibly vital human being and genius poet should have endured exile, the destruction of her family and COMPLETE abandonment during the worst turmoil of 20th century Russia. It is sobering reading but the description of her early life and richly cultured upbringing is really fascinating too, she was clearly a complex difficult person but her personal struggle to maintain her spirit is truly inspiring. I was reminded several times throughout of having read a biography of Sylvia Plath, that same feeling of a woman with a huge personality completely trapped in constraining times. Her 12 year old daughter's description of her ,at one point, is absolutely unforgettable....i wish i could quote it here but i've mislaid the book...its a condensed book from a larger work by Elaine feinstein, i seem to recall, so its actually very easy to read ,but nonetheless enthralling....

Review # 2 was written on 2020-12-13 00:00:00 Richard Fryberg Few did more than Simon Karlinsky to bring Tsvetaeva’s poetic achievement to the attention of English-speaking readers. In the plus column of this pioneering critical biography is Karlinsky’s frank (though brief) assessment of her sexual attachments, along with the pre-revolutionary context writers enjoyed to express same-sex relationships; his account of the fractious politics of the Russian émigrés in Berlin, Prague, and Paris after the October Revolution; his treatment of Tsvetaeva’s husband, Sergei Efron, who converted from czarist White Army refugee to Bolshevik secret agent; and his vivid description of the poverty and domestic drudgery Tsvetaeva endured for most of her adult life, after a pampered bourgeois childhood. In the negative column—well, somehow there’s not much Marina to Karlinsky’s Tsvetaeva. You get a good sense of her movements, her associates, her publishing history, and her critical reception. You understand how her politics clashed with nearly everyone in the diaspora, left, White or polka-dot. You see why lovers could find her too much, and why misogynist critics read her wrong. What I missed though was any real feeling for what excited so many people at the time about Tsvetaeva’s person and her writing. How is it that from the age of 18 she found influential friends and supporters? Why did she figure as such an important poet among the Russian diaspora? And why were some of the most famous poets of her age (Mayakovsky, Mandelstam, Bely, Pasternak, Briusov, Blok, etc.) so quick to acknowledge her as an equal, or at least a gifted rival? A large part of the answer has to do with her use of Russian, which Karlinsky describes but can’t hope to bring over into English. Was it just her way with diction, rhyme and meter though that got under contemporary skins? Somehow Tsvetaeva’s charisma eludes all the well-wrought context. Which is maybe what Karlinsky intended, so we'd want to read more of her texts.