Poetika prestupa u prozi Marine Cvetajeve
The Poetics of Offence in the Prose of Marina Tsvetaeva

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the elements of poetics and auto-poetics conceptualized by Marina Tsvetaeva in her autobiographical prose work. The paper particularly focuses on the following stories: “The Devil”, “Mother and Music”, “The House at Old Pimen”, “My Father and his Museum” and “Kirilovni”, written in the 1930s. The author of the paper delineates specific artistic device, by which Tsvetaeva tells the stories about her childhood and, through them, presents her view of the nature of poetical creation and the very role of a poet in the world. While telling about her own getting familiar with the myths of the Devil and the Witch, Tsvetaeva uses the subversive cultural meanings inscribed in these myths as a metaphor for the subversiveness of the poet’s creation. The poet’s work is understood as a rebellious act against established social and biological order structured by male-dominated, heteronormative and Christian principles. Tsvetaeva also argues for the recognition of particular erotism of poet’s subject that celebrates the principles of femaleness and the Otherness, opposing the non-poetical, rational and repressive principle of maleness.

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