love and hate recommendations...

[A.Smith]

Dear Amarilis Lugo de Fabritz,

If you are looking for some interesting 20th-c. Texts, then I could suggest
to consider Tatiana Tolstaia's collections of stories ("On the Golden
Porch", 1989; and "Sleepwalker in a Fog", 1992): they contain some
entertaining stories that feature both love and hate (especially Poet and
the Muse); Vladimir Nabokov's "Nabokov's Dozen: 13 stories" (New York, 1958;
London, 1959): this book also includes some memorable stories on love (for
example, Spring in Fialta, The potato Elf) and hate/hatred (Cloud, Castle,
Lake)... 
As for poems: you might wish to glance at the latest collection of Russian
20th-c. poetry in English: "The Stray Dog Cabaret: A Book of Russian Poems"
translated by Paul Shmidt. It contains a new translation into English of
Tsvetaeva's long love poem "Poem of The End"...(published The New York
Review of books)-- forthcoming soon....

Best,

Alexandra Smith

Alexandra Smith (PhD, University of London)
Lecturer in Russian, University of Sheffield
Alexandra.Smith at sheffield.ac.uk

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