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Tsvetaeva

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Tsve·ta·e·va  (tsvy-täy-v), Marina Ivanovna 1892-1941.
Russian poet whose work, including Evening Album (1910) and "The Swans' Camp" (published in 1957), is distinctive for its powerful rhythms and lyrical directness. She lived in exile after 1922 but returned to the Soviet Union in 1939, committing suicide two years later.

Tsvetaeva [tsfɛtəˈjeɪvə]
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(Biographies / Tsvetaeva, Marina (Ivanovna) (1892-1941) F, Russian, WRITING: poet) Marina (Ivanovna). 1892-1941, Russian poet. Opposed to the Revolution, she left Russia (1922) and lived in Paris: when she returned (1939) her husband was shot and she committed suicide


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provides a startlingly original study of the work of Mandelstam, Pasternak and Tsvetaeva, placing it in the back-flows of politics running from the establishment of the soviet state.
Byline: Carol Ann Duffy I KNOW THE TRUTH BY MARINA TSVETAEVA I know the truth - give up all other truths
But just as some of the most powerful poetic translations eschew a literal rendering of their source texts, here the lives of historical figures--among them Shostakovich, Tsvetaeva, the filmmaker Roman Karmen, the German field marshal Friedrich Paulus, and Hitler himself, called "the sleepwalker"--are freely adapted for his fictional aims.
 
 
 
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