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No Love Without Poetry: The Memoirs of Marina Tsvetaeva's Daughter

No Love Without Poetry: The Memoirs of Marina Tsvetaeva's Daughter

Nemec Ignashev, Diane
Efron, Ariadna

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ISBN10: 0810145049
ISBN13: 9780810145047
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: Jul 15 2022
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.94 Width: 5.91 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Winner of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages 2011 Book Prize for Best Scholarly Translation in English

The memoirs of Ariadna Efron provide an intimate and indispensable perspective on the poet Marina Tsvetaeva's life and work, told from the point of view of her daughter. This wrenching story about the difficulty of living with genius charts Efron's relationship with her parents as they navigate art and exile.

Efron's rapport with her mother, already intense, became strained under the hardships imposed by early twentieth century Russian political upheaval. Efron recounts the family's travels from Moscow to Germany, to Czechoslovakia, and finally to France, where, against her mother's advice, Efron decided to return to Russia. Diane Nemec Ignashev draws on Efron's short stories and her mother's notebooks to supplement the original memoirs. Haunting and poignant, No Love without Poetry completes extant historical records on Tsvetaeva--and showcases Efron as a literary force in her own right.

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