Women are nicer
John Bayley, 20 March 1986
Marina Tsvetaeva: The Woman, her World and her Poetry
by Simon Karlinsky.
Cambridge, 289 pp., £27.50, February 1986,0 521 25582 1 Show More
by Simon Karlinsky.
Cambridge, 289 pp., £27.50, February 1986,
The Women’s Decameron
by Julia Woznesenskaya, translated by W.B. Linton.
Quartet, 330 pp., £9.95, February 1986,0 7043 2555 1 Show More
by Julia Woznesenskaya, translated by W.B. Linton.
Quartet, 330 pp., £9.95, February 1986,
“... Trotsky, who had a certain wit, even in literary matters, thought that women wrote poetry for only two reasons: because they desired a man and because they needed God, ‘as a combination of errand boy and gynaecologist ... How this individual, no longer young and burdened by the personal bothersome errands of Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva and others, manages in his spare time to direct the destinies of the universe is simply incredible ... ”
