Life in Excess and Love without Home: a Poetic Dialogue between Marina Tsvetayeva and Maria-Mercè Marçal

Abstract

The article presents an approach to the comparative study of works by Russian poet Marina Tsvetayeva and Catalan poet Maria-Mercè Marçal. Their literary works, especially poetic, can be studied in terms of the typological convergence; it denominates similar phenomena in different literatures, which are the result of different stages of the socio-historical and cultural development of the peoples or –as in the case studied– of universal human conscience laws. The works of both poets exercise a constant dialogue on the field of texts, which belong to different national literatures but are united by the basic and common notions of a woman who immerses herself in poetry. Both poets live on the edge, with intensity, in excess, fearful of leaving paths to mill; they are poets of love and excess, of risk beyond the imposed limits.