In Search of the Lost Enchantment: Marina Tsvetaeva’s Autobiographical Stories of the 1930s. (Location: UFR d'Études Slaves; Faculté de Lettres - Sorbonne Université, France; via Zoom.)

Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk

Description

The lecture analyses Tsvetaeva's prose in the context of European modernism and its interest in memory and the concept of the lived past. It compares Tsvetaeva's works to memoirs, essays and autobiographical writing of Benjamin and Proust.
Period14 Apr 2022
Held atUniversity of Sorbonne, France
Degree of RecognitionInternational

Keywords

  • autobiography
  • European and Russian modernism
  • memory
  • Proust
  • Benjamin
  • Tsvetaeva
  • emigre writing
  • Russian literature

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