The Ratcatcher, Marina Tsvetaeva's masterpiece, is a satirical version of the Pied Piper of Hamelin legend in the form of a complex narrative poem that bears all the marks of Tsvetaeva's poetic style.
This is a reissue of a classic text on poetry and art first published in English translation in 1992 and published by Bristol Classical Press in the UK and Harvard University Press in the USA.
Moscow in the 1930s is the consummate symbol of the Soviet paradise, a fairy-tale capital where, in Stalin’s words, ?life has become better, life has become merrier”. In Happy Moscow Platonov exposes
