Karlinsky Simon. Freedom from Violence and Lies: Essays on Russian Poetry and Music

Ed. by Robert P. Hughes, Thomas a. Koster and Richard Taruskin. — Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2013. — 502 p. — ISBN-10: 1618111582; ISBN-13: 978-1618111586.Freedom from Violence and Lies is a collection of forty-one essays by Simon Karlinsky (1924–2009), a prolific and controversial scholar of modern Russian literature, sexual politics, and music who taught in the University of California, Berkeley’s Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures from 1964 to 1991. Among Karlinsky’s full-length works are major studies of Marina Tsvetaeva and Nikolai Gogol, Russian Drama from Its Beginnings to the Age of Pushkin; editions of Anton Chekhov’s letters; writings by Russian émigrés; and correspondence between Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson. Karlinsky also wrote frequently for professional journals and mainstream publications like the New York Times Book Review and the Nation. The present volume is the first collection of such shorter writings, spanning more than three decades. It includes twenty-seven essays on literary topics and fourteen on music, seven of which have been newly translated from the Russian originals.Pushkin and RomanticismTwo Pushkin Studies
Fortunes of an Infanticide
Pushkin Re-Englished
A Mystical Musicologist
Küchelbecker’s Trilogy, Izhorsky, As an Example of the Romantic Revival of the Medieval Mystery Play
Misanthropy and Sadism in Lermontov’s PlaysModernism, Its Past, Its LegacyAnnensky’s Materiality
Zinaida Gippius and Russian Poetry
Died and Survived
Symphonic Structure in Andrei Bely’s Pervoe svidanie
The Death and Resurrection of Mikhail Kuzmin
Nikolai Gumilyov and Théophile Gautier
An Emerging Reputation Comparable to Pushkin’s
Tsvetaeva in English: A Review Article
A New Edition of the Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva
New Information about the Émigré Period of Marina Tsvetaeva (Based on Material from Her Correspondence with Anna Tesková)
Pasternak, Pushkin, and the Ocean in Marina Tsvetaeva’s From the Sea
“Traveling to Geneva…”: On a Less-than-Successful Trip by Marina Tsvetaeva
Isadora Had a Taste for “Russian Love”
Surrealism in Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry: Churilin, Zabolotsky, Poplavsky
Evtushenko and the Underground PoetsPoetry AbroadIn Search of Poplavsky: A Collage
Morshen, or a Canoe to Eternity
Morshen after Ekho i zerkalo
A Hidden Masterpiece: Valery Pereleshin’s Ariel
Russian Culture in Manchuria and the Memoirs of Valery PereleshinOn ChaikovskyA Review of Tchaikovsky: A Self-Portrait by Alexandra Orlova
Should We Retire Chaikovsky?
Man or Myth? The Retrieval of the True Chaikovsky
Chaikovsky and the Pantomime of DerisionOn StravinskyThe Composer’s Workshop
The Repatriation of Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky and Russian Preliterate TheaterOn Shostakovich“Our Destinies Are Bad”
Taking Notes for TestimonySong and DanceThe Uses of Chaliapin
Russian Comic Opera in the Age of Catherine the Great
Contralto: Rossini, Gautier and Gumilyov
A Cultural Educator of Genius
Opera and Drama in RavelIndex of Names