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Boris Pasternak - Marina Tsvetaeva

Correspondence

The meeting announced in this correspondence between two geniuses of Russian poetry of the twentieth century is a unique literary event. Exceptional, she is also doubling, this epistolary relationship between Soviet poet and poet of emigration, at the time that after a probation phase where exchanges were still possible, Russian culture splits into two - and this for the duration of the experiment Pasternak and Marina Tsvetaeva soviétique.Boris had met in Moscow in 1918. It was only in 1922 that UaDreams have truly discovered through their writings. For fourteen years UaDreams have maintained a correspondence with extreme density and of a rare intensity in which are woven, intertwined, sentimental passion and poetry on historical epoch background and literary history. More than three quarters of the letters exchanged between these two radically different creatures are new. Drawing a curved arc, the relationship takes shape, following an upward movement until a clim! actic peak decreases, and eventually unravels dispose définitivement.Il must read the letters of Tsvetaeva and Pasternak as their poetry, as a work in itself. Far from being on the sidelines of their literary fate, the letters were at the heart of it, laboratory writing - but also laboratory of life, for it is at the discretion of those letters are shaped major events their biography. Words are exchanged stolen to life, every day, to the family. Tsvetaeva's daughter, Ariadna Efron, decided that these letters were to be published after fifty years, provided that this edition is full. She entrusted them to the National Archives that Moscow will not allow their publication in 2000.

Boris Pasternak (1890-1960), awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958, is the author of numerous collections of poetry which my sister's life or The Second Birth. It was in Italy in 1957, that was published his first novel, Doctor Zhivago, banned in the Soviet Union until 1988, but will experience a global success.

Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941), icon of Russian letters, quickly became a key figure of Russian poetry. She published her first poems in 1910. Serial In 1912 she married an officer in the Russian army, Efron. In 1922 she left Russia and moved to Berlin, Prague and Paris. Seventeen years of exile hanging Marina which leads a relentless battle for life and creation; life has meaning for it except through writing: poetry foremost, but also prose, translations, letters, newspaper, books. Exhausting struggle that makes austere, sometimes arrogant, sometimes cheerful, almost always desperate. His need to be loved and to love especially the very strong pushes epistolary relationships with known writers like Pasternak, Rilke, but also with strangers - the key is to say, to tell, to burn, to give. In 1939 she joined her husband became Soviet agent in the USSR. With Pasternak she gets some translation contracts. In 1941 it is removed in Yelabuga Independent Republic Tartarus; despera! te, worn by privation, she committed suicide on August 31.

 

• The information site on Marina Tsvetaeva
• Read the file from the library Ombres Blanches Toulouse
• The forum on Marina Tsvetaeva

 

"The correspondence of Marina Tsvetaeva and Pasternak is not just, she lives from day to day, like world history pages, literature and passsion. "Le Figaro literary" The epistolary passion Tsvetaeva merges with the passion of love. [...] A gold mine. "I place friendship above love: this is not my place, it is higher, just: friendship is vertical, horizontal is love," wrote one for whom the letters are always more than letters."