Letters: Summer 1926 FROM THE PUBLISHER
"The summer of 1926 was a time of trouble and uncertainty for each of the poets whose letters appear here. Boris Pasternak was in Moscow, trying to come to terms with the new Bolshevik regime. Marina Tsvetayeva, exiled from the Soviet Union to France with her husband and two children, was struggling desperately to get by. Rainer Maria Rilke, in Switzerland, was dying. Chance put them in touch with one another, and before long they found themselves engaged in a complicated correspondence in which questions of art and love were ever more deeply implicated, and where every aspect of life and work was discussed with passionate intensity." Newly published in a significantly expanded edition, including two essays about Rilke by Marina Tsvetayeva that are powerful works of art in their own right, Letters: Summer 1926 takes the reader into the hearts and minds of three of the twentieth century's greatest poets at a moment of maximum emotional and creative pressure.
SYNOPSIS
First published in German in 1983, this English version of the letters includes a new preface by Susan Sontag and two essays about Rilke by Tsvetayeva. The correspondence between the three poets is full of references to their writing, other literature, their lives, and current events. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
FROM THE CRITICS
Library Journal
Poets Pasternak, Marian Tsvetayeva, and Rainer Maria Rilke were not having a banner year in 1926: Pasternak was stuck in Moscow trying to stay out of the way of the Bolsheviks; Tsvetayeva was in France after having been booted from Russia; and Rilke was dying in Switzerland. The trio began a correspondence spelling out their assorted woes as well as holding lengthy discussions about art, love, and other poetic topics. This 1983 title offers a selection of their letters along with numerous photographs. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
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