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“Empathic Attunement”: Cvetaeva's and Pasternak's Literary Tributes to Rilke

Russian Literature LXVI (2009) I www.elsevier.com/locate/ruslit “EMPATHIC ATTUNEMENT”: CVETAEVA’S AND PASTERNAK’S LITERARY TRIBUTES TO RILKE OLGA ZASLAVSKY Abstract In the summer of 1926, three great poets of the twentieth century – Tsvetaeva, Pasternak, and Rilke – exchanged letters. This three-way epistolary exchange conducted by all three poets in German ended several months later, after Rilke’s death from leukemia. The correspondence first saw the light in the German edition in the 1980’s, then, gradually, it started appearing in other languages, including Russian. It has drawn comments from such a notable critic as Susan Sontag. Tsvetaeva’s long poem, ‘Novogodnee’, written shortly after Rilke’s death, was analyzed extensively by Joseph Brodsky. In my paper, I provide brief readings of three literary tributes to Rilke by Tsvetaeva and Pasternak. I use the psychological concept of “empathic attu

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Rainer Maria Rilke’s name had appeared repeatedly in the letters that Pasternak and Tsvetaeva exchanged from , and in the late spring of the Bohemian-Austrian poet added his voice.

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Rilke was in Switzerland and entering a final, fatal illness.

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16 In his biography of Pasternak, Chris- topher Barnes expresses less sympathy with Tsvetaeva's "verbal ex- cesses." He questions the sincerity of.

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This superb translation, “Letters Summer Pasternak, Tsvetayeva, Rilke,” traces the brilliant and passionate exchange of letters between Rainer Maria Rilke (), one of Germany’s.

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As Pasternak writes to Rilke, the poet “is himself always the essence of poetry, called though he may be by different names at different times.” Tsvetayeva similarly greets Rilke as one of the “bearers,” suggesting that “the poet who comes after you must be you, i.e.

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Rainer Maria Rilke’s name had appeared repeatedly in the letters that Pasternak and Tsvetaeva exchanged from 1922-1925, and in the late spring of 1926 the Bohemian-Austrian poet added his voice.

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This superb translation, “Letters Summer 1926: Pasternak, Tsvetayeva, Rilke,” traces the brilliant and passionate exchange of letters between Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), one of Germany’s.

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	Love letters and poems provided an outlet for three poets separated by geography but united by the desolation of exile, loneliness and ill health.
	As Pasternak writes to Rilke, the poet “is himself always the essence of poetry, called though he may be by different names at different times.” Tsvetayeva similarly greets Rilke as one of the “bearers,” suggesting that “the poet who comes after you must be you, i.e.
	Bibliography ; Art in the Light of Conscience: Eight Essays on Poetry by Marina Tsvetaeva.

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In his acclaimed biography of Rilke, Donald Prater considers Rilke's correspondence with Tsvetaeva as the dying poet's final hope for an escape from his illness.'9 When Rilke began writing to Tsvetaeva, the.