The Silk, the Shears and Marina; Or, About Biography

Download or read book The Silk, the Shears and Marina; Or, About Biography written by Irena Vrkljan and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1999-02-17 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Ksaver Šandor Gjalski Prize These are the first two volumes of the Croatian poet and novelist Irena Vrkljan's lyrical autobiography. Although each novel illuminates the other, they also stand alone as original and independent works of art. In The Silk, the Shears, Vrkljan traces the symbolic and moral significance of her life, and her vision of the fate of women in her mother's time and in her own. Marina continues the intense analysis of the poetic self, using the life of Marina Tsvetaeva to meditate on the processes behind biography.