Marina Tsvetaeva: the concrete and the metaphoric discourse of exile.

From: The Modern Language Review | Date: July 1, 2001| Author: | Copyright information

Issues are presented concerning the analysis of poet Marina Tsvetaeva's discourses on exile to determine her attempts to deal with her linguistic and creative isolation during her stay in Paris, France.

Since discourses on exile comprise both a concrete confrontation and a simultaneous, metaphoric translation of the experience, this study examines the Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva's efforts to come to terms with her creative and linguistic isolation during her years in Paris (1925-1939). It focuses especially on Tsvetaeva's translation of Russia into the poetic origin: a primordial sound ...

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