E. ROSTAND AND THE ROMANTICISM IN THE WORKS OF M. I. TSVETAEVA

Abstract

The article examines the «Rostand layer» in the fictional and ego-documentary works of M. I. Tsvetaeva. Rostand’s work became one of the main sources that informed Tsvetaeva’s concept of Romanticism, which she perceived as a facet of her own soul, rather than as a literary phenomenon. Analyzing the motives, images, plot twists of Rostand, Tsvetaeva shows that it was a comprehensive influence that affected her throughout her life and was not limited to a purely «literary» sphere.