Hostages of Love: Fifteen, or rather sixteen, intimate stories from the lives of Russian poets
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Hostages of Love: Fifteen, or rather sixteen, intimate stories from the lives of Russian poets
19.99 €
Love is a state of altered consciousness. Anyone who has experienced this feeling understands how it intoxicates, torments, captivates, inspires, allows moments of supreme rapture, and plunges to the very depths of despair. What can we say, then, about the love of a poet, who already lives on the edge of two realities, in other words, is not quite normal? The intensity of the feeling is distilled into poetic lines of incredible power; the suffering and pleasure experienced become the material for creativity, powerfully influencing the entire structure of the personality, worldview, and reshaping a worldview. This can only be compared to large-scale natural disasters, when, at the site of catastrophic faults in the earth's crust, previously unknown mountain ranges suddenly rise to the heavens—"like aerial ruins of magically created chambers." This book is structured in a manner not entirely typical of the "ZhZL" series. It includes sixteen love stories from the lives of great Russian poets—from Vasily Zhukovsky and Alexander Pushkin to Joseph Brodsky and Gennady Shpalikov. It tells not of the "endless happiness" of love, but of its "stinging torment," not of realized hopes and the harmony of blissful tranquility, but of the painful duality of the poetic spirit and its catastrophic insatiability—love walks hand in hand with betrayal, treason, and inner bondage. At the same time, it speaks of feelings of such incredible intensity and such a high-heat of passion that at times it is impossible not to shudder: "When a poet loves, a restless god falls in love." This book is dedicated to the tragic magic of love.
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