Women are nicer
John Bayley, 20 March 1986
Marina Tsvetaeva: The Woman, her World and her Poetry
by Simon Karlinsky.
Cambridge, 289 pp., £27.50, February 1986,0 521 25582 1 Show More
by Simon Karlinsky.
Cambridge, 289 pp., £27.50, February 1986,
The Women’s Decameron
by Julia Woznesenskaya, translated by W.B. Linton.
Quartet, 330 pp., £9.95, February 1986,0 7043 2555 1 Show More
by Julia Woznesenskaya, translated by W.B. Linton.
Quartet, 330 pp., £9.95, February 1986,
“... the first Russian Independent Women’s Group, and is the subject of the American feature film, Julia’s Diary. There is a certain comedy, which would have appealed to Tsvetaeva, and perhaps to Boccaccio too, in the idea of Russian Women’s Lib, with all the harsh and elemental experience it is based on, encountering its Western counterpart. Traditionally ... ”
