Abstract
Marina Tsvetaeva's poem The Rat-catcher, written mainly in Bohemia, as well as other works of this period, is characterized by innovativeness - looking for new genre forms. The synthesis of various layers originally refreshes the symbol and myth.
Specific facts from the life of the poetess were always in its whole essence transformed, mythologised, romanticized with the goal to gain even a deeper meaning. The popularity of the "rat-catcher" text in the west European literature is motivated especially by mystique, mysteriousness of this legend and the character of the rat-catcher himself.
The complex and ambiguous text of Tsvetaeva's Rat-catcher offer various interpretations as well. When comparing "rat-catcher" texts of the Russian poetess and the Czech writer V.
Dyk, particularly differences in the plot and artistic image of the rat -catcher become more distinct. Both texts significantly differ in their final dramatic character and gradation.