Research Catalog

Title

The ratcatcher : a lyrical satire / Marina Tsvetaeva ; translated with an introduction and notes by Angela Livingstone.

Author

T︠S︡vetaeva, Marina, 1892-1941

Publication

London : Angel, 1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Livingstone, Angela
• Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

123 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941) is acknowledged as one of the greatest of Russian poets." "Tsvetaeva wrote this extraordinary work, which she subtitled 'a lyrical satire', in Prague and Paris in the mid-1920s. Using the story known to us as 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin', she pits Art against Philistinism in a critique of all social search for material prosperity (including that of the Bolsheviks). Even for the innovative Tsvetaeva, this is quite a new kind of writing - an explosion of clashing sounds, voices and rhythms, fuelled by anger and bitter sarcasm. At the end the Piper, who stands for the magical power of Art, takes a terrible toll on the children of the town of Hamelin - neat, comfort-loving, hypocritical and reluctant to pay its debts."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Angel classics

Uniform Title

• Krysolov. English
• Angel classics

Alternative Title

Krysolov.

Subject

• Philistinism > Poetry
• Verse satire, Russian

Genre/Form

• Verse satire, Russian.
• Poetry

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Canto 1. Hamlin Town -- Canto 2. The Dreams -- Canto 3. The Affliction -- Canto 4. The Abduction -- Canto 5. In the Town Hall -- Canto 6. The Children's Paradise.

ISBN

0946162611

OCLC

• 59378193
• SCSB-11904201

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library