Earthly Signs by Marina Tsvetaeva

Author:Marina Tsvetaeva
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781681371634
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2017-11-13T16:00:00+00:00

He often sang that song, wonderfully. He’d finish — and invariably:

If I were young,

How I would love you!

“Aleksei Aleksandrovich! Aleksei Aleksandrovich! That’s not in the ballad! You’re making up your own song!”

“Yes it is, yes it is! And if it isn’t — se non è vero è ben trovato!

And no one understood!

(Recounted by a student actress.)

Moscow, February–March 1919

[1] A poet and student of the Vakhtangov studio.

[2] A director of the II Studio, now also deceased.

[3] The first location of the Art Theater. (M.Ts.)

[4] In English in the text. Tsvetaeva apparently meant “I’m a stranger here” [translator].

[5] The following on the theater, I pass over, since it’s already been published. (M.Ts.)

[6] An actress who in the play was in love with a high school student. (M.Ts.)

[7] An actor of Studio II, later a volunteer in the White Army, who went missing in action in 1920. (M.Ts.)

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