„Frei“-Tod Zwetajewas

Ein Buch über den „Frei“-Tod der Dichterin Marina Zwetajewa kurz nach ihrer Rückkehr aus dem Exil bespricht Carlin Romano im Philadelphia Inquirer vom 18.1.04:

But The Death of A Poet compensates as a stark, scene-by-scene depiction of all the straws piled slowly upon one another: Tsvetaeva living with her son in a part of a partitioned provincial room, desperately seeking work as a dishwasher, abasing herself to plead with Stalin by letter for her husband’s life (Stalin never answered.)
Sparely, intricately, it records how a rarefied literary soul who once corresponded grandly with Rilke found herself at wit’s end – ravaged, tormented – in a country gone mad with murder, betrayal, denunciation and disloyalty.

The Death of a Poet
The Last Days of Marina Tsvetaeva
By Irma Kudrova
Translated by Mary Ann Szporluk
Overlook. 229 pp. $29.95