Freedom From Violence and Lies: Essays on Russian Poetry and Music by Simon Karlinsky

Open Access Published by Academic Studies Press 2013

Freedom From Violence and Lies

Essays on Russian Poetry and Music by Simon Karlinsky

Edited by: Robert P. Hughes , Richard Taruskin and Thomas A. Koster
Funded by: National Endowment for the Humanities and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program

In the series Ars Rossica

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781618116765

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Robert P. Hughes is professor emeritus of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the editor of the collected works of Vladislav Khodasevich and the author of numerous articles on modern Russian literature. Richard Taruskin is the Class of 1955 Professor of Music at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions (1996), Defining Russia Musically (1997), and the Oxford History of Western Music (2005). Thomas A. Koster is the assistant vice chancellor for capital programs and planning at the University of California, Berkeley.

Reviews

Polina Dimova (Oberlin College):
“A loving tribute to Karlinsky by his colleagues at UC Berkeley who served as editors and translators, this wide-ranging volume offers a miscellany of his book reviews and articles on poetry and music never collected before. . . . Karlinsky’s reviews engage with major scholarly works on Russian poetry and music and present a unique document in the history of Russian studies in America and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Hughes, Koster, and Taruskin edit unobtrusively and expertly, updating Karlinsky’s critical apparatus in footnotes and commentaries so as not to render the reviews obsolete, and provide invaluable information and further quotations by Karlinsky to illuminate his intellectual legacy and the controversies surrounding his uncompromisingly incisive writing. . . . Karlinsky’s provocative thought, lucid writing, strong opinions, and biting wit make the volume a pleasure to read. In its vivid introductions to poets, Freedom from Violence and Lies will appeal to general readers interested in all things Russian, as well as to all students and scholars of Russian poetry, music, and culture.”

Philip Ross Bullock (Wadham College, University of Oxford):
“All of the essays have been lovingly and intelligently edited by Robert P. Hughes, Thomas A. Koster and Richard Taruskin. Not only do their commentaries situate Karlinsky’s work in the context of both his life and the field at the time. . . they also attest to the impact that Karlinsky had on them as a human being, a teacher and a scholar. . . Reading these incisive and invigorating essays, one encounters an individual unforgiving of crassness, stupidity and carelessness, yet appreciative of the creative potential of those who live their humanity fully and authentically."

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Contents Open Access Download PDF	5
Preface Open Access Download PDF	7
I. PUSHKIN AND ROMANTICISM
1. Two Pushkin Studies Open Access Download PDF	14
2. Fortunes of an Infanticide Open Access Download PDF	43
3. Pushkin Re-Englished Open Access Download PDF	49
4. A Mystical Musicologist Open Access Download PDF	56
5. Küchelbecker’s Trilogy, Izhorsky, As an Example of the Romantic Revival of the Medieval Mystery Play Open Access Download PDF	62
6. Misanthropy and Sadism in Lermontov’s Plays Open Access Download PDF	77
II. MODERNISM, ITS PAST, ITS LEGACY
7. Annensky’s Materiality Open Access Download PDF	86
8. Zinaida Gippius and Russian Poetry Open Access Download PDF	97
9. Died and Survived Open Access Download PDF	105
10. Symphonic Structure in Andrei Bely’s Pervoe svidanie Open Access Download PDF	114
11. The Death and Resurrection of Mikhail Kuzmin Open Access Download PDF	125
12. Nikolai Gumilyov and Théophile Gautier Open Access Download PDF	133
13. An Emerging Reputation Comparable to Pushkin’s Open Access Download PDF	145
14. Tsvetaeva in English: A Review Article Open Access Download PDF	154
15. A New Edition of the Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva Open Access Download PDF	167
16. New Information about the Émigré Period of Marina Tsvetaeva (Based on Material from Her Correspondence with Anna Tesková) Open Access Download PDF	174
17. Pasternak, Pushkin, and the Ocean in Marina Tsvetaeva’s From the Sea Open Access Download PDF	182
18. “Traveling to Geneva…”: On a Less-than-Successful Trip by Marina Tsvetaeva Open Access Download PDF	194
19. Isadora Had a Taste for “Russian Love” Open Access Download PDF	205
20. Surrealism in Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry: Churilin, Zabolotsky, Poplavsky Open Access Download PDF	212
21. Evtushenko and the Underground Poets Open Access Download PDF	229
III. POETRY ABROAD
22. In Search of Poplavsky: A Collage Open Access Download PDF	242
23. Morshen, or a Canoe to Eternity Open Access Download PDF	267
24. Morshen after Ekho i zerkalo Open Access Download PDF	291
25. A Hidden Masterpiece: Valery Pereleshin’s Ariel Open Access Download PDF	301
26. Russian Culture in Manchuria and the Memoirs of Valery Pereleshin Open Access Download PDF	310
IV. ON CHAIKOVSKY
27. A Review of Tchaikovsky: A Self-Portrait by Alexandra Orlova Open Access Download PDF	322
28. Should We Retire Chaikovsky? Open Access Download PDF	330
29. Man or Myth? The Retrieval of the True Chaikovsky Open Access Download PDF	339
30. Chaikovsky and the Pantomime of Derision Open Access Download PDF	346
V. ON STRAVINSKY
31. The Composer’s Workshop Open Access Download PDF	358
32. The Repatriation of Igor Stravinsky Open Access Download PDF	369
33. Igor Stravinsky and Russian Preliterate Theater Open Access Download PDF	376
VI. ON SHOSTAKOVICH
34. “Our Destinies Are Bad” Open Access Download PDF	398
35. Taking Notes for Testimony Open Access Download PDF	408
VII. SONG AND DANCE
36. The Uses of Chaliapin Open Access Download PDF	416
37. Russian Comic Opera in the Age of Catherine the Great Open Access Download PDF	423
38. Contralto: Rossini, Gautier and Gumilyov Open Access Download PDF	440
39. A Cultural Educator of Genius Open Access Download PDF	457
40. Opera and Drama in Ravel Open Access Download PDF	475
Index of Names Open Access Download PDF	486

Language: English
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;General/trade;
Pages
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eBook

Published: December 17, 2017
ISBN: 9781618116765