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Where the dog is buried: Clues to the ancestry of Tsvetaeva's canine "Devil"
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Where the Dog is Buried: Clues to the Ancestry of Tsvetaeva's Canine "Devil"*
ABSTRACT: Marina Tsvetaeva's 1934 "Chert" (The Devil) forms a central part of the cycle of autobiographical prose she wrote in emigration. This article assembles clues to the hidden origins of the Devil she describes in prose about her grandfathers, some of it censored in pre-1990 editions of her works. Tsvetaeva's Devil is not simply metaphysi...
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