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Re: Tsvetaeva (fwd)
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EDITOR's NOTE. Like Ulrike Goldschweer, I have a hazy impression that
there IS a VN poem that echoes Tsvetaev's technique. ANy one know
off-hand?
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From: Galya Diment <galya@u.washington.edu>
I am not aware of any Tsvetaeva parodies in his oevre, but there is a
parody of Akhmatova in PNIN (in Liza's poetry) which upset Akhmatova very
much. She apparently thought it was vicious (according to Brodsky) and
could not understand why he would do it.
In Nabokov's Berlin reviews of women poets in emigration he is also quite
sarcastic about them following in Akhmatova's footsteps but never,
to the best of my recollection, ridicules Tsvetaeva. GD
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On Mon, 24 Mar 1997, Ulrike Goldschweer
wrote:
> Somebody told me, VN wrote a parody of one of Marina Tsvetaeva's
> poems. Unfortunately he couldn't remember the title, or where he had
> read it.
> Maybe someone of you can help?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Ulrike Goldschweer
> Lotman-Institut fuer russische
> und sowjetische Kultur
> Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum
> D - 44780 Bochum
>
> goldsub3@rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
>
there IS a VN poem that echoes Tsvetaev's technique. ANy one know
off-hand?
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From: Galya Diment <galya@u.washington.edu>
I am not aware of any Tsvetaeva parodies in his oevre, but there is a
parody of Akhmatova in PNIN (in Liza's poetry) which upset Akhmatova very
much. She apparently thought it was vicious (according to Brodsky) and
could not understand why he would do it.
In Nabokov's Berlin reviews of women poets in emigration he is also quite
sarcastic about them following in Akhmatova's footsteps but never,
to the best of my recollection, ridicules Tsvetaeva. GD
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On Mon, 24 Mar 1997, Ulrike Goldschweer
wrote:
> Somebody told me, VN wrote a parody of one of Marina Tsvetaeva's
> poems. Unfortunately he couldn't remember the title, or where he had
> read it.
> Maybe someone of you can help?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Ulrike Goldschweer
> Lotman-Institut fuer russische
> und sowjetische Kultur
> Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum
> D - 44780 Bochum
>
> goldsub3@rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
>