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Una serata non terrestre

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"Io non amo la vita in quanto tale", scriveva Marina Cvetaeva, "per me essa comincia ad avere un significato, cioè a trovare senso e peso, solo trasfigurata, ovvero nell'arte". E Marina Cvetaeva ha voluto che l'intera sua esistenza - pur sprofondata nelle peggiori crudeltà dell'epoca, e pur irrimediabilmente segnata dalle sue stesse personali tragedie - dalla tragica morte per denutrizione di una delle sue figlie, all'uccisione del marito, fino al suo stesso suicidio -, venisse trasfigurata nell'arte. Nelle prose inedite riunite in questo volume, la Cvetaeva si racconta, ma le sue non sono semplici pagine autobiografiche, dal momento che, come scriveva a Boris Pasternak, "la vita quotidiana è tradimento: dell'anima. Tradire con l'anima la vita dei giorni - credo di non aver fatto altro nella mia vita". L'intento di Marina è semmai quello di controbattere, con un proprio passato rivisto e corretto dal mito dell'arte, un tempo presente del tutto inaccettabile e indegno: tempo di esilio, di solitudine, di perdita, di cancellazione. E' a questa cancellazione che in primo luogo si oppongono queste pagine della Cvetaeva, che vede l'intero suo mondo sempre più travolto, come quella Germania divenuta paese nemico e che per lei era stata e rimaneva sinonimo di libertà: la patria di Bach, di Heine, di Goethe… Tra Germania, Francia e Russia, Marina dissemina i suoi ricordi, le sue esperienze, soprattutto i suoi sentimenti, perché è solo attraverso di essi che quei ricordi e quelle esperienze possono trovare la loro più giusta luce. Chiudono il volume una breve autobiografia e due interviste: "autentici testamenti ideologici e poetici", come scrive Marilena Rea nella prefazione, nella quale la Cvetaeva riversa "tutta la sua esperienza creativa, con tutto l'orgoglio di essere poeta, con tutto lo sdegno di esiliata".

118 pages, Paperback

Published June 25, 2015

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Marina Tsvetaeva

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Марина Цветаева
Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva was born in Moscow. Her father, Ivan Tsvetaev, was a professor of art history and the founder of the Museum of Fine Arts. Her mother Mariya, née Meyn, was a talented concert pianist. The family travelled a great deal and Tsvetaeva attended schools in Switzerland, Germany, and at the Sorbonne, Paris. Tsvetaeva started to write verse in her early childhood. She made her debut as a poet at the age of 18 with the collection Evening Album, a tribute to her childhood.

In 1912 Tsvetaeva married Sergei Efron, they had two daughters and one son. Magic Lantern showed her technical mastery and was followed in 1913 by a selection of poems from her first collections. Tsvetaeva's affair with the poet and opera librettist Sofiia Parnok inspired her cycle of poems called Girlfriend. Parnok's career stopped in the late 1920s when she was no longer allowed to publish. The poems composed between 1917 and 1921 appeared in 1957 under the title The Demesne of the Swans. Inspired by her relationship with Konstantin Rodzevich, an ex-Red Army officer she wrote Poem of the Mountain and Poem of the End.

After 1917 Revolution Tsvetaeva was trapped in Moscow for five years. During the famine one of her own daughters died of starvation. Tsvetaeva's poetry reveals her growing interest in folk song and the techniques of the major symbolist and poets, such as Aleksander Blok and Anna Akhmatova. In 1922 Tsvetaeva emigrated with her family to Berlin, where she rejoined her husband, and then to Prague. This was a highly productive period in her life - she published five collections of verse and a number of narrative poems, plays, and essays.

During her years in Paris Tsvetaeva wrote two parts of the planned dramatic trilogy. The last collection published during her lifetime, After Russia, appeared in 1928. Its print, 100 numbered copies, were sold by special subscription. In Paris the family lived in poverty, the income came almost entirely from Tsvetaeva's writings. When her husband started to work for the Soviet security service, the Russian community of Paris turned against Tsvetaeva. Her limited publishing ways for poetry were blocked and she turned to prose. In 1937 appeared MOY PUSHKIN, one of Tsvetaeva's best prose works. To earn extra income, she also produced short stories, memoirs and critical articles.

In exile Tsvetaeva felt more and more isolated. Friendless and almost destitute she returned to the Soviet Union in 1938, where her son and husband already lived. Next year her husband was executed and her daughter was sent to a labor camp. Tsvetaeva was officially ostracized and unable to publish. After the USSR was invaded by German Army in 1941, Tsvetaeva was evacuated to the small provincial town of Elabuga with her son. In despair, she hanged herself ten days later on August 31, 1941.

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October 20, 2023
La patria non è una convenzione territoriale, ma l'inconfutabilità della memoria e del sangue. Non essere in Russia, dimenticare la Russia - può spaventare solamente chi la Russia la immagina al di fuori di se stesso. Chi ce l'ha dentro, la perde solo insieme alla vita.
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November 16, 2020
"Le cose più amate al mondo: la musica, la natura, le poesie, la solitudine.
Totale indifferenza per il pubblico, il teatro, le arti plastiche, la visibilità.
Il senso di proprietà riguarda i figli e i quaderni.
Se avessi uno scudo vi farei incidere 'Ne daigne'.
La vita è una stazione, presto me ne andrò, dove - non lo so dire."
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