Tsvetaeva’s Turn

Simon Karlinsky

  • A Captive Lion: The Life of Marina Tsvetayeva by Elaine Feinstein
    Hutchinson, 287 pp, £15.95, February 1987, ISBN 0 09 165900 0
  • The Selected Poems of Marina Tsvetayeva translated by Elaine Feinstein
    Hutchinson, 108 pp, £6.95, February 1987, ISBN 0 09 165931 0

In 1913, when she was 20 and had already published two volumes of poetry, Marina Tsvetaeva wrote the following prophetic lines, translated by Vladimir Nabokov in 1972:

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