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In the Inmost Hour of the Soul

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  • © 1989

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  1. Marina Tsvetayeva
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Part of the book series: Vox Humana (VOX)

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Table of contents (100 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. You, rushing past on your streets

    • Marina Tsvetayeva
    Pages 1-1

  3. The war, the war

    • Marina Tsvetayeva
    Pages 2-2

  4. The leaves have fallen upon your gravestone

    • Marina Tsvetayeva
    Pages 3-3

  5. The fatal volume

    • Marina Tsvetayeva
    Pages 4-4

  6. Two suns are cooling

    • Marina Tsvetayeva
    Pages 5-5

  7. After a sleepless night

    • Marina Tsvetayeva
    Pages 6-6

  8. Sweetly—sweetly

    • Marina Tsvetayeva
    Pages 7-7

  9. Black as an iris

    • Marina Tsvetayeva
    Pages 8-8

  10. To kiss one’s brow

    • Marina Tsvetayeva
    Pages 9-9

  11. I came in

    • Marina Tsvetayeva
    Pages 10-10

  12. The New Year’s Eve

    • Marina Tsvetayeva
    Pages 11-11

  13. I am not an impostor

    • Marina Tsvetayeva
    Pages 12-12

  14. Here, darling, take these rags

    • Marina Tsvetayeva
    Pages 13-13

  15. Words are inscribed in the black sky

    • Marina Tsvetayeva
    Pages 14-14

  16. I am. You shall be

    • Marina Tsvetayeva
    Pages 15-15

  17. I will tell you about the great hoax

    • Marina Tsvetayeva
    Pages 16-16

  18. Spurned by my lover

    • Marina Tsvetayeva
    Pages 17-17

  19. Dying, I will not say

    • Marina Tsvetayeva
    Pages 18-18

  20. I am paper to your pen

    • Marina Tsvetayeva
    Pages 19-19
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About this book

" .. .1 have no love for life as such; for me it begins to have significance, i.e., to acquire meaning and weight, only when it is transformed, i.e., in art. If I were taken beyond the sea­ into paradise-and forbidden to write, I would refuse the sea and paradise. I don't need life as a thing in itself." This, written by Tsvetayeva in a letter to her Czech friend, Teskova, in 1925, could stand as an inscription to her life. Marina Tsvetayeva was born in Moscow on September 26, 1892. Her fathel~ a well-known art historian and philolo­ gist, founded the Moscow Museum of the Fine Arts, now known as the Pushkin Museum; her mother, a pianist, died young, in 1906. Marina began writing poetry at the age of six. Her first book, Evening Album, contained poems she had writ­ ten before she turned seventeen, and enjoyed reviews by the poet, painter, and mentor of young writers, Max Voloshin, the poet Gumilyov, and the Symbolist critic and poet, Valerii Bryusov. Voloshin and Gumilyov welcomed the seventeen­ year-old poet as their equal; Bryusov was more critical of her, though he too, in his own belligerent way, acknowledged her talent.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: In the Inmost Hour of the Soul

  • Authors: Marina Tsvetayeva

  • Series Title: Vox Humana

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3706-8

  • Publisher: Humana Totowa, NJ

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: The Humana Press Inc. 1989

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-89603-137-1Published: 25 May 1989

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-8220-4Published: 30 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-3706-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 108

  • Topics: Arts

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