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040			_bEnglish _cCBULib _erda
050			_aPG 3476 Tsv
100			_aTsvetaeva, Marina _94213
245			_aThe ratcatcher : a lyrical satire _c/ by Marina Tsvetaeva
260			_bAngel Books, _c1999 _aLondon :
300			_a123 pages
336			_2rdacontent _aText | _btxt
337			_2rdamedia _aUnmediated | _bn
338			_2rdacarrier _aVolume _bnc
490			_aAngel Classics
500			_aReview: "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.
650		0	_94214 _aPHILITINISM -- POETRY
650		0	_94215 _aVERSE SATIRE, RUSSIAN
700			_94216 _aLivingstone, Angela _eTranslator
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