The Ratcatcher: A Lyrical Satire
Tsvetaeva, Marina / Wood, Antony / Livingstone, Angela![The Ratcatcher: A Lyrical Satire](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/943/9432499/CHSBZCOP039432499.jpg)
Ignored upon its publication in 1926 in a Russian-emigre periodical, Marina Tsvetaeva's extraordinary narrative poem The Ratcatcher is today deemed by critics and readers to be the zenith of her impressive oeuvre. Written in Prague and Paris in the mid- 1920s and now available in the United States for the first time, The Ratcatcher is at once a paean to literary tradition and a scathing attack on the materialistic, unspiritual lifestyle embrac...