“…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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