KARLINSKY, Simon [Tsvetaeva] - Marina Tsvetaeva the Woman, Her World, and Her Poetry. Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature.

Cambridge University Press, 1987. P/b. 299pp. A very nice bright copy. Clean and tight. Small mark to fore-edge. x+289pp. sources, index. Used; Very Good Drawing on recent documentation and research, much unpublished. With historical, political and literary background against which Tsvetaeva's life and literary development evolved. A particular feature of the book is a discussion of Tsvetaeva's relationships with her literary contemporaries, especially Mandelstam, Rilke, Akhmatova, Pasternak, and Mayakovsky, and of her emotional involvement with various men and women that are reflected in her poetry, plays and prose. Paperback.