01542 a2200265 4500 CBULib 20241211094928.0 241211b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780946162611 English CBULib rda PG 3476 Tsv Tsvetaeva, Marina 4213 The ratcatcher : a lyrical satire / by Marina Tsvetaeva Angel Books, 1999 London : 123 pages rdacontent Text | txt rdamedia Unmediated | n rdacarrier Volume nc Angel Classics Review: "Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941) is acknowledged as one of the greatest of Russian poets." "Tsvetaeva wrote this extraordinary work, which she subtitled 'a lyrical satire', in Prague and Paris in the mid-1920s. Using the story known to us as 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin', she pits Art against Philistinism in a critique of all social search for material prosperity (including that of the Bolsheviks). Even for the innovative Tsvetaeva, this is quite a new kind of writing - an explosion of clashing sounds, voices and rhythms, fuelled by anger and bitter sarcasm. At the end the Piper, who stands for the magical power of Art, takes a terrible toll on the children of the town of Hamelin - neat, comfort-loving, hypocritical and reluctant to pay its debts."--Jacket. 4214 PHILITINISM -- POETRY 4215 VERSE SATIRE, RUSSIAN 4216 Livingstone, Angela Translator lcc 002 85841 85841 0 0 lcc 0 0 LSK 010 001 GEN 2024-12-11 Book Aid International 0 PG 3476 Tsv 753199 2024-12-11 1 2024-12-11 002 0 0 lcc 0 0 LSK 010 001 GEN 2024-12-11 Book Aid International 0 PG 3476 Tsv 753200 2024-12-11 2 2024-12-11 002