Milestones

ISBN-13: 9781848614161 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 124 str.

Marina Tsvetaeva; Christopher Whyte

Opis

Milestones (Vyorsty) is an early collection by Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941), published in Moscow in 1922, before she left the country for the West. The book was her most innovative collection to that point, as well as an indication of the way her work would develop in her full maturity as a writer.

Milestones (1922) is regarded as Marina Tsvetaevas first mature collection and remains one of the highlights of her entire career as a poet. It is a lyrical diary for 1916, the final year of Tsarist Russia, before the twin revolutions of February and October 1917. A young woman aged 23 is seen grappling with motherhood and marriage, with love, sex and friendship, with the traditions of the Orthodox church and her own instinctive polytheism, with the literary environment where she is reaching maturity and, last but not least, with the staggering dimensions of her own talent.