« J’ai lu votre livre »
This article aims to study the way in which Marina Tsvetaeva tried to weave together a constellation of lesbian authors with whom she thought she shared a community of destinies in her Letter to the Amazon (1932-1934). We will be trying to retrace the journey of the writer, from the initial feeling...
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| description | This article aims to study the way in which Marina Tsvetaeva tried to weave together a constellation of lesbian authors with whom she thought she shared a community of destinies in her Letter to the Amazon (1932-1934). We will be trying to retrace the journey of the writer, from the initial feeling of exclusion to the need to create, via the literary space, new motifs (the « woman-island ») and new places (another Lesbos) of symbolic reunion with these authors. Indeed, this long letter, written in French, adopts the form of a true poetic meditation, at least doubly addressed: to Natalie Clifford Barney and, secondly and implicitly, to Sappho. In this text which, a priori, never reached its main recipient, Marina Tsvetaeva, at that time a solitary star exiled and marginalized in France, tries to establish if not a communication, at least a communion, fictitious but sensitive, with two lesbian writers, two “white visions”: one contemporary but inaccessible, and the other who became a mythical image or an ethereal reflection. Thanks to the female gaze, the poetic evocation of a lesbian love, from its blossoming to its wilting, then to its death, opens up a reflection on a triple isolation: that of the lesbian woman, that of the creative woman, that finally of the elderly woman – three images of women stifled in their desire and their creative impulse, which merge in fine, in an autobiographical burst, in a troubled and double image: that of the author and, like a reflection in the mirror, of the poet Sophia Parnok, her former partner. Thus, the article shows how this epistolary meditation was able to offer Marina Tsvetaeva a space for intimate, salutary and above all, free expression – as evidenced by its form, at the crossroads of the letter, the prose poem and the essay – thereby outlining the contours of a feminine and lesbian « creative constellation », certainly imagined, but intrinsically restorative. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b9187bf20af040d2a0eae25866b1ab9c2024-02-15T13:59:08ZfraAssociation Genres, sexualités, langageGlad!2551-08191210.4000/glad.4362« J’ai lu votre livre »Marion MarxThis article aims to study the way in which Marina Tsvetaeva tried to weave together a constellation of lesbian authors with whom she thought she shared a community of destinies in her Letter to the Amazon (1932-1934). We will be trying to retrace the journey of the writer, from the initial feeling of exclusion to the need to create, via the literary space, new motifs (the « woman-island ») and new places (another Lesbos) of symbolic reunion with these authors. Indeed, this long letter, written in French, adopts the form of a true poetic meditation, at least doubly addressed: to Natalie Clifford Barney and, secondly and implicitly, to Sappho. In this text which, a priori, never reached its main recipient, Marina Tsvetaeva, at that time a solitary star exiled and marginalized in France, tries to establish if not a communication, at least a communion, fictitious but sensitive, with two lesbian writers, two “white visions”: one contemporary but inaccessible, and the other who became a mythical image or an ethereal reflection. Thanks to the female gaze, the poetic evocation of a lesbian love, from its blossoming to its wilting, then to its death, opens up a reflection on a triple isolation: that of the lesbian woman, that of the creative woman, that finally of the elderly woman – three images of women stifled in their desire and their creative impulse, which merge in fine, in an autobiographical burst, in a troubled and double image: that of the author and, like a reflection in the mirror, of the poet Sophia Parnok, her former partner. Thus, the article shows how this epistolary meditation was able to offer Marina Tsvetaeva a space for intimate, salutary and above all, free expression – as evidenced by its form, at the crossroads of the letter, the prose poem and the essay – thereby outlining the contours of a feminine and lesbian « creative constellation », certainly imagined, but intrinsically restorative.https://journals.openedition.org/glad/4362literaturememorywomen writerslesbianscorrespondence |
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