About this title: Ignored upon its publication in 1926 in a Russian-emigre periodical, Marina Tsvetaeva's extraordinary narrative poem The Ratcatcher is today deemed by critics and readers to be the zenith of her impressive oeuvre. Written in Prague and Paris in the mid- 1920s and now available in the United States for the first time, The Ratcatcher is at once a paean to literary tradition and a scathing attack on the materialistic, unspiritual lifestyle embraced by post-Bolshevik Russia.
The Ratcatcher retells the legend of the German town of Hamlin, which in the year 1284 was so badly overrun by rats that ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Angel Books,, London:
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780946162611ISBN:0946162611
Description: Fine. 0946162611. Translated from the Russian by Angela Livingstone. First printing thus (paperback). Fine in illustrated wraps. read more
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